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...itself. Indeed, so voracious was its appetite for waste that Haitians did not need outhouses: their pigs kept the neighborhood clean and disease-free. The hogs also rooted in the soil in search of tubers and root-destroying worms, thereby helping turn the earth for planting, ridding crops of insect pests and leaving behind nitrogen-rich manure as fertilizer...
...Human-Insect Link...
...closely studied fruit fly, the gene fragment appears in genes which control the insects' physical structure. When the genes are damaged, defects such as feet attached at the wrong end of the insect result...
According to the Nature article written by Struhl, the occurrence of a similar fragment in vertebrates could play a role in tracing human develompment, materializing general principles may govern both insect and vertebrate development...
...finding stemmied from a careful watching of the genetic development of various insect parts, such us the thorax or abdomen. Alteration of some genes causes legs or thorax segments to develop where the abdomen should be, for exmaple...