Novel findings on the evolution of parasitism
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 11:14
in Biology & Nature
150 years after Darwin's epochal 'On the Origin of Species' many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are signalling pathways changed by genes and by the environment enabling the development of new species? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, strive to decode the molecular basis of parasitism. Their objects of research are nematode worms...