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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 92 - 93
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5591.92
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Lab v. Field: The Case for Studying Real-Life Bugs

Martin Enserink

Skeptics aren't convinced that the sequence of the Anopheles gambiae genome, published in this issue of Science, will actually help control malaria. For more than a decade now, vector ecologists have argued that the field of insect-borne diseases is betting too many of its scarce research dollars on high-tech work like DNA sequencing and too few on studies of insect behavior and ecology.

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