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Researchers thought that most new genes were formed from existing genes, but Cornell scientists have discovered a gene in some fruit flies that appears to be uncorrelation to other genes in any known genome. The new gene, called hydra, exists in only a small number of species of Drosophila fruit flies, which suggests it was created about 13 million years ago, when these melanogaster subgroup species diverged from a common ancestor........