ドロソフィラの高濃度感受には,TRPチャネルである水魔女とナンチュンチャングが必要である

Lei Liu1, Yuhong Li, Runping Wang

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.

Nature
|November 13, 2007
PubMed
まとめ

科学者たちは,水気変化を検知するのに不可欠な2つの重要な遺伝子,水魔女 (wtrw) とnanchung (nan) を果物ハエで発見しました. これらの遺伝子は,昆虫が湿気と乾燥の両方を感知するのを助け,その生存と行動に不可欠です.

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