“We killed off a bunch of them selectively. And now the remaining bats tend to have different versions of some genes compared to the ones that died.”

Georgia Oteri · Short Wave · The genetic secret helping bats survive a deadly epidemic

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collect genetic samples from surviving little brown bats to identify genes associated with higher pre-hibernation body-mass index

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