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Fruit-fly paper has 1,000 authors

Nature volume 521, page 263 (2015)Cite this article

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Genomics paper with an unusually high number of authors sets researchers buzzing on social media.

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  1. Leung, W. et al. Genes Genomes Genet. 5, 719–740 (2015).

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Woolston, C. Fruit-fly paper has 1,000 authors. Nature 521, 263 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/521263f

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