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Mosquito's After Our Genes

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A collaborator experiment between University of Nottingham, Rothamsted Research and the University of Florida on mosquito's has shown that being bitten could be down to your genes. Mosquito's where given the choice of twins to fly towards by releasing them down a Y shaped tube.This showed that identical twins where more attracted to the mosquito's than the  non identical twins.
Source  Science Daily
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