Cornell University: Scientists Retrace Monarch's Toxin-Immunity Evolution
October 03, 2019
October 03, 2019
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 3 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Small genetic changes prevent a normally fatal poison from killing monarch butterflies.
By editing these genes into laboratory fruit flies using CRISPR technology, scientists have reconstructed evolution and instantly conferred - in the flies - the same toxin resistance enjoyed by monarchs.
"We experimentally went back in evolutionary time to reconstruct an e . . .
Small genetic changes prevent a normally fatal poison from killing monarch butterflies.
By editing these genes into laboratory fruit flies using CRISPR technology, scientists have reconstructed evolution and instantly conferred - in the flies - the same toxin resistance enjoyed by monarchs.
"We experimentally went back in evolutionary time to reconstruct an e . . .