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Published online 6 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011108-6

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Genetic shift in photoperiodic respnse correlated to global warming

Mosquitoes' evolve rapidly in response to global warming.

Mosquitoes are holing up later as winters get warmer, US ecologists have shown. This is the first genetic adaptation to global warming to be identified.

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