摘要
With nearly one million classified and named species, the insecta clade is the most diverse group of higher organisms on earth in terms of category, behavior, physiology and genetics. Although scientists have discovered that this high divergence resuits from the organism＇s adaptation to the environment and its long-time evolution over the past 400 million years, the reason and genetic mechanisms behind it remain unclear. Furthermore, despite the findings that proteins specific to the insect are the major future to distinguish it from others, people are not clear what they are.
Headed by Prof. KANG Le, a research team from the CAS Institute of Zoology has recently made breakthrough progress in idenPfying insectspecific proteins.
