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Study refutes how fruit flies developed alcohol tolerance

January 13, 2017

Kristi Montooth, an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, displays a bottle containing fruit flies that are the subject of her research. She is a co-author of a new scientific paper investigating the evolutionary causes of fruit flies' tolerance for alcohol.

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