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The Mayflies of Europe (Ephemeroptera)
5. 4. 2012
This book includes 369 species of mayflies and addresses the most urgent needs in European mayfly research.
Freeze-tolerant larvae of Drosophila melanogaster
14. 2. 2012
Surprisingly simple laboratory manipulations can change the chill susceptible drosophila larva to the freeze tolerant one.
Juvenile hormone receptor
9. 1. 2012
The current paper, published by PNAS, has finally brought conclusive evidence for the JH receptor role of Met.
Genetic origin of industrial melanism in the peppered moth, Biston betularia
5. 12. 2011
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 and family from the insect group Ephemerida
23. 8. 2011
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.
