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Duane D. McKenna

joined in Dec 2, 2020

Professor at Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Biodiversity Research, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

McKenna has 1 break published.

Beetles became an evolutionary success with help from stolen microbial genes

There are more than 400,000 known beetle species - and perhaps one million more species left to discover. This makes beetles one of the most diverse groups of animals on Earth. However, the causes for their extraordinary diversity are widely debated. Many claim that herbivory... click to read more

Duane D. McKenna | Professor at Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Biodiversity Research, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

evolution

beetles

herbivory

horizontal gene transfer

microbes

Reading time 3 min

published on Dec 2, 2020

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