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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.

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Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.See also the Russian science web focus at www.nature.com/nature/focus/russianscience/index.html

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Abbott, A. Behavioural Genetics: A question of survival. Nature 449, 532–534 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449532a

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