A team of 102 researchers from 21 countries, named Project IBISCA-Panama, had been sampling the rainforest from cranes, inflatable platforms, balloons, and climbing ropes for two years, then taking eight years to sort 130,000 arthropods from their samples.
This review article summarizes current mechanistic models of juvenile hormone signaling during insect metamorphosis.
Ladybirds are probably the best known predators of aphids and coccids in the world, though this greatly underestimates the diversity of their biology. Maximising their impact on their prey is an important element in modern conservation biological control of indigenous natural enemies in contrast to the classical approach of releasing alien species.
This book includes 369 species of mayflies and addresses the most urgent needs in European mayfly research.
Surprisingly simple laboratory manipulations can change the chill susceptible drosophila larva to the freeze tolerant one.
The current paper, published by PNAS, has finally brought conclusive evidence for the JH receptor role of Met.
The results, published in Science, demonstrate that the carbonaria morph of Biston betularia was seeded by a single recent mutation, which is controlled by a new yet unknown melanisation gene that maps to a small region of chromosome 17.
New fossil species Mickoleitia longimanus is described from the Lower Cretaceous limestone in Brazil. It is attributed to a new family Mickoleitiidae and a new fossil insect order Coxoplectoptera within the palaeopterous Ephemerida.
This study provides direct evidence for the essential role of proline in high freeze tolerance in the drosophiliid fly, Chymomyza costata.
Replacement of larval epidermal cells (the larger cells) with new adult cells during metamorphosis of the fly Drosophila requires downregulation of the atf3 gene
