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Tortoise beetles use pigmentation protein to shield bacteria that help digest plants
Source: Phys.org · Published
More than 80 years ago, scientists discovered that differences in yellow pigmentation were critical to courtship success and failure for fruit flies. It was one of the first demonstrations linking…
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