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An international team, with the participation of the IRBio, has successfully sequenced the genome of the body lice

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 22.06.2010

An international team, with the participation of the IRBio, has successfully sequenced the genome of the body lice

An international team has sequenced the genome of the human body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus), a parasite that feeds off the blood of its host and which is a vector of pathogens that cause diseases such as epidemic typhus, relapsing fever and trench fever. The research conducted by this team has been published in Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences (PNAS). A UB group led by professors Julio Rozas and Montserrat Aguadé, experts from the Consolidated Research Group for Evolutionary Molecular Genetics and members of the Institute for Research in Biodiversity (IRBio), located at the Barcelona Science Park, has also collaborated in this research. The scientific team is led internationally by Barry R. Pittendrigh (University of Illinois) and Ewen F. Kirkness (J. Craig Venter Institute), and as far as Spanish collaboration, the teams from the University Hospital Complex and the University of Santiago de Compostela have also participated in the project.

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