New family of glycerol transporters may help to explain why insects are the most successful group of organisms
Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Bergen (Norway), IRTA Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC) and Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) presented the discovery and evolutionary origin of a new subfamily of molecular channels that they suggest may have allowed insects to become the dominant species on earth.