Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Indiana University biologists create beetle with functional extra eye

11/15/2017 12:49 PM EST

a three-eyed beetle

The creation of three-eyed beetles through a new technique developed at Indiana University will provides scientists a new way to investigate the genetic mechanisms behind the evolutionary emergence of new physical traits. The researchers recently reported their methods in the journal Current Biology.


Full story at https://news.iu.edu/stories/2017/11/iub/10-science-extra-eye-beetle.html

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Indiana University


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