{"id":120975,"date":"2021-03-29T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/first-known-gene-transfer-from-plant-to-insect-identified"},"modified":"2021-03-29T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T07:22:18","slug":"first-known-gene-transfer-from-plant-to-insect-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/first-known-gene-transfer-from-plant-to-insect-identified","title":{"rendered":"First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-known-gene-transfer-from-plant-to-insect-identified2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results were surprising, but convincing, says Yannick Pauchet, a molecular entomologist also at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. \u201d According to the data they provide, horizontal gene transfer is the most parsimonious explanation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>But how the whitefly managed to swipe a plant gene is unclear. One possibility, says Turlings, is that a virus served as an intermediate, shuttling genetic material from a plant into the whitefly genome.<\/p>\n<p>As researchers s\u2026 See More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host\u2019s defences may offer a route to new pest-control strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe results were surprising, but convincing, says Yannick Pauchet, a molecular entomologist also at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. \u201d According to the data they provide, horizontal gene transfer is the most parsimonious explanation,\u201d he says. But how the whitefly managed to swipe a plant gene is unclear. One possibility, says Turlings, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}