Thursday, 11 August 2011

'Super' mouse evolves resistance to most poisons

I wonder which species might survive the evolutionary struggle.

10 August 2011

Scientists say that some European house mice have developed resistance to the strongest poisons.
German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years.

The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria.

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