Unravelling a can of worms.

Elife

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States.

Published: April 2015

Understanding the evolutionary relationships between species could help researchers select better model organisms to study in the laboratory.

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