How do genes get new jobs? Wasp venom offers new insights
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 14:32
in Biology & Nature
A new study describes how four closely related species of parasitic wasps change their venoms rapidly in order to adapt to new hosts, and proposes that co-option of single copy genes may be a common but relatively understudied mechanism of evolution for new gene functions, particularly under conditions of rapid evolutionary change.