Monday, 1 April 2019

The milkweed bug's orange wings and DNA: How insects' diets are revealed by the genome

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand at the molecular level what makes the bug, from its colourful development to its toxic diet.

* This article was originally published here