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Study finds just a few genes cause great variations.
Byline: John Fauber
MILWAUKEE _ From stars in the sky to cells under a microscope, the sources of scientific inspiration are many.
But for a couple of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, the stimulus came from a compost heap and a bunch of fruit flies, specifically from the colorful rear ends of those annoying bugs.
Writing last week in the journal Nature, the two scientists say they have figured out how different animals can end up with vastly different colors and patterns of ornamentation on various body parts.
It's research that may tell us as much about how evolution works as it does about how scientists work.
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