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Genetics could make rodent control strategies more efficient
November 17, 2017
EEB Professor Gisella Caccone’s work is featured in Scienceline in an article called “A Brazilian city is using DNA to combat the ancient scourge of rats”. The piece...
![In the community of Pau da Lima, Brazil, poor infrastructure and floods contribute to higher exposure to leptospirosis, a rat-borne disease. [Image courtesy of Jonathan Richardson]](https://eeb.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/adaptive-image/public/capture_0.png?itok=BwCcKNFi "In the community of Pau da Lima, Brazil, poor infrastructure and floods contribute to higher exposure to leptospirosis, a rat-borne disease. [Image courtesy of Jonathan Richardson]")