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Wasp with red eyes created in lab
In a first, scientists have genetically modified a jewel wasp to have red eyes, using a novel gene editing technology. The wasps were created to prove that CRISPR gene-slicing technology can be used successfully on the tiny parasitic jewel wasps.
Los Angeles: In a first, scientists have genetically modified a jewel wasp to have red eyes, using a novel gene editing technology. The wasps were created to prove that CRISPR gene-slicing technology can be used successfully on the tiny parasitic jewel wasps.
The advance provides scientists a new way to study some of the wasp's interesting biology, such as how males can convert all their progeny into males by using selfish genetic elements.
No one knows how that selfish genetic element in some male wasps "can somehow kill the female embryos and create only males," said Omar Akbari, an assistant professor at University of California, Riverside in the US.
"To understand that, we need to pursue their PSR (paternal sex ratio) chromosomes, perhaps by mutating regions of the PSR chromosome to determine which genes are essential for its functionality," said Akbari.
