A fly's eye view of evolution

(University of G ö ttingen) The fascinating compound eyes of insects consist of hundreds of individual eyes known as " facets " . In the course of evolution, an enormous variety of sizes and shapes has emerged, often adaptations to different environmental conditions. Scientists, led by a research group at G ö ttingen University have now shown that these differences can be caused by very different changes in the genome of fruit flies. The study was published inMolecular Biology and Evolution.
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