Science
Genetic adaption to climate change is swift in crop pests – Phys.org
Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice—say, the fruit from apple or Hawthorn trees—is at its peak. They’re active for a couple of weeks, eating and mating, before going dormant for the re…
Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choicesay, the fruit from apple or Hawthorn treesis at its peak. They’re active for a couple of weeks, eating and mating, before going dormant for the rest of the year. How this synchronization and remarkable timing happens has long been a mystery. In a world where global change is shifting the growing seasons, somehow the fruit flies keep up.
In a new study, scientists have found many genes …
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