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Published online 3 October 2007 | Nature 449, 532-534 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449532a
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Behavioural Genetics: A question of survival
International collaboration and a can-do spirit have allowed some Russian scientists to flourish. Alison Abbott watches an extraordinary field test for mutant mice in the Russian wilderness.
As she watched Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation speech on Christmas day 1991, Inga Poletaeva, a Russian behavioural geneticist, was in Switzerland, on her first visit to the West. For her, as for most Russians, the fall of the Soviet Union seemed inevitable.
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