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Nature 436, 8 (7 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436008a; Published online 6 July 2005

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Parasite infiltrates fruitfly research

Claire Ainsworth

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Geneticists fear Drosophila results skewed by unnoticed bacterium.

An unnoticed parasite could be scuppering fly geneticists' experiments. Up to a third of laboratory strains of their favourite test organism — the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster — are infected with a parasite that affects the flies' biology, according to a study of hundreds of stocks of the fly.

Apache Tomcat/5.0.7 - Error report

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type Exception report

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description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

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javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception

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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

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