Recent Evolutionary Change Allows a Fruit Fly to Dine on a Toxic Fruit
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Fruit flies in the lab of John Pool, in the genetics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, happily eat a noni fruit that is normally toxic to fly species. Pool is probing the genetic basis for this ability, which may explain how insects adapt to new foods -- a line of research that could apply to agricultural pests.