Silk moth's diapause reverts back to ancestors' through gene editing!?

(Shinshu University) Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in the environment and actively reduce metabolism, or halt regular differentiation and development. By knocking out genes that allow the silkworm to detect temperature, researchers found that the silk moth diapause changes from temperature to day length. This is not only valuable for the molecular mechanism in the environmental response, but also an important finding in exploring the process of domesticati...