Melbourne, Jan 27 : A new study has confirmed what many parents already knew - head louse is a super bug.
According to lead researcher Stephen Barker, Associate Professor from the University of Queensland, animals have two types of chromosomes, the nucleic and the mitochondrial.
And on most animals the mitochondrial chromosome contains 37 genes.
However, the genome sequencing of head lice has revealed the 37 genes are located on 12 or more mini-chromosomes that join and separate.