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News Release 13-039
Antarctic and Arctic Insects Use Different Genetic Mechanisms to Cope With Lack of Water
Genomic techniques facilitate discovery that gene expression causes disparity
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Biologist Nick Teets searches for Belgica antarctica, a flightless midge, on an island near NSF's Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, during a 2010 deployment.
Credit: Photograph by Peter Rejcek, NSF
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The larvae of Belgica antarctica, a flightless midge and Antarctica's only indigenous insect.
Credit: Photograph by Richard E. Lee, Jr., NSF
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