October 05, 2017
A new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences stated that engineered mutant butterflies reveal the roots of wing patterns. The authors of the new study rearranged colors on butterfly wings by deleting a single gene using CRISPR. The gene’s absence had a dramatic effect in seven butterfly species, including some that aren’t closely related.
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