invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala. Citing an "unprecedented outbreak" of insect damage to fruit and vegetable crops California and Texas, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ...

Fruit flies are already known to evolve at a speedy pace ... Therese Markow, an emeritus evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego, who did not participate in the work, tells ...

Anastrepha fruit flies are the main fruit fly pests throughout the Western Hemisphere. The SIT has been applied to exclude the Mexican fruit fly (A. ludens) from California and Texas, to suppress the ...

So evolutionary biologist Noah Whiteman of the University of California, Berkeley and colleagues used the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9 to alter the sodium pumps of fruit flies and retrace the ...