Lodwick and Demong were part of the U.S.squad that was third after the jumping portion of the team event.

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Great Britain, which took gold in the team show jumping event this week and its first ever dressage team gold Tuesday, could only manage equal fifth for rider Nick Skelton, disappointing the home crowds.

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Soon after, the jumping monkey became the team's rallying cry.

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Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.

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