The secret to the success of insects

Friday, August 7, 2015 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

A new family of glycerol transporters may help to explain why insects are the most successful group of organisms in the history of life. Excluding bacteria, insects represent more than half of the world´s biodiversity and are thus considered to be the most evolutionary successful group of terrestrial organisms ever.

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