Sunday, 2 February 2014

World's First Butterfly Bacteria Sequenced by CU-Boulder Researchers

The internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species has been sequenced for the first time ever by a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The team, led by CU-Boulder doctoral student Tobin Hammer, used powerful DNA sequencing methods to characterize bacterial communities inhabiting caterpillars, pupae and adults of iHeliconius erato/i, commonly known as the red postman butterfly. The red postman is an abundant tropical ...




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