Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost all plant groups ... Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced the evolution of insects," says Roy Kirsch.

As the global population continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure food security. With limited land and ...

Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost all plant groups ... Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced the evolution of insects," says Roy Kirsch.

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

The only problem was that he was nearly two years into the project and had little to show for it, as he was struggling to find homologs of the neochrome gene or pieces ... that horizontal transfer ...

Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost all plant groups ... Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced the evolution of insects," says Roy Kirsch.

Grafting two transgenic plants triggers lateral gene transfer ... interest lay in wanting to understand horizontal gene transfer during evolution, the results made him wonder whether grafting ...

An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ...

The FDA assertion that horizontal gene transfer does not occur between transgenic plants and microorganisms has stimulated a number of investigations, centering on two types of experiments ...

These findings muddy the distinction between naturally-occurring gene transfer in plants and the human-mediated mechanisms we generally refer to as genetic engineering. Image: Science/AAASEver since ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...