Resumen de Origin of insect wings revealed by gene editing
Two groups have used the gene-editing methods CRISPR to reveal the origin of insect wings. Heather Bruce and Nipam Patel at the University of California, Berkeley, looked at how insects evolved from crustaceans. Bruce used CRISPR to disable leg genes in a crustacean called Parhyale hawaiensis, to find which segments relate to parts of the insect body. While Yoshinori Tomoyasu at Miami University in Ohio and his colleagues have also used CRISPR to disable the genes in P hawaiensis that correspond to wing genes in modern insects. Wings evolved in insects that walked on water and harnessed the wind to sail across the surface.
