Improved egg enabled insects to conquer the land
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
Insects are so successful on the land because insect eggs are protected from desiccation. Thanks to an extraembryonic membrane in the egg, the serosa, insects could successfully switch from life in the water to life on land. The research group of Veni laureate Dr Maurijn van der Zee (Leiden University) published about this research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.