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I always find findings derived from #historical #museummaterial particularly fascinating. In the case of the work by authors H. R. Ghanavi et al. (2026), a 40-year-old specimen of #Drosophila #enhydrobia was almost completely #genomically #reconstructed using #museomicmethods.
Text by Stefan F. Wirth

Reference:

H. R. Ghanavi et al. (2026) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.024

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@CurrentBiology I always find findings derived from #historical #museummaterial particularly fascinating. In the case of the work by authors H. R. Ghanavi et al. (2026), a 40-year-old specimen of #Drosophila #enhydrobia was almost completely #genomically #reconstructed using #museomicmethods.
Text by Stefan F. Wirth

Reference:

H. R. Ghanavi et al. (2026) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.024

Illustration
Graphical abstract, authors above, licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/