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Why locusts swarm: Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm

December 19, 2011 by

New research has found that a protein associated with learning and memory plays an integral role in changing the behavior of locusts from that of harmless grasshoppers into swarming pests.

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