
Scientists know a lot about Eastern tiger swallowtail — the state insect in five states — but they hadn’t managed to sequence their genome. Now, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of one wild-caught individual, and they say that it has already told them more than they had anticipated about the butterflies and some of their most intriguing features.
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