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TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies

This Week in Evolution

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The Infectious Microbes at the Top of Trees

Mice in the Andes volcanoes may be virus-driven like caterpillars that seek top of tree. If so, natural selection can act on that because then the viruses that are changing that behavior to cause them to seek those higher altitudes will survive. Those are the ideas still being studied in real time.

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