Insects converge on resistance

Noah K. Whiteman () and Kailen A. Mooney ()
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Noah K. Whiteman: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Kailen A. Mooney: University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7416, 376-377

Abstract: In a remarkable example of convergent evolution, insect species spanning 300 million years of divergence have evolved identical single-amino-acid substitutions that confer resistance to plant cardenolide toxins.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/489376a

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