Matching Up Fruit Flies, Mushroom Toxins and Human Health

Monday, February 27, 2017 - 17:31 in Biology & Nature

Some fruit flies build up tolerance to the toxin α-amanitin; the genetic mechanisms behind this adaptation link to an important metabolic pathway. A team from Michigan Technological University used genome-wide association mapping to draw the connections for 180 fruit fly lines.

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