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An internal clock may explain why a fly-killing fungus kills at sunset
Science News describes a decades-old mystery: infected flies die at sunset, no matter when the fungus infects them.
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Science News reports that Entomophthora muscae turns flies into “zombies” and kills them at sunset, regardless of when they were infected. An internal kill clock may explain the timing.
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