Our Drosophila results help to understand the effects of innate immunity impairment on Huntington's disease progression.
The article in IBMB supports the hypothesis that lifespan in primitive eusocial insect species is regulated in a different way than it is in advanced eusocial insects.
The article in Science reports the discovery of the Y-linked gene MoY in Medfly, a long-sought primary trigger for male development.
An invited review in Phil Trans R Soc B considers endocrine evidence in support of homology between juvenile stages of insects with complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
The article in Frontiers in Physiology describes detail protocol for CRISPR-CAS9 gene editing in Pyrrhocoris apterus.
The article in Applied Soil Ecology shows that although diversity of bioturbating organisms varies greatly among differently degraded tropical forests, the amount of soil brought by them to surface (bioturbation) is relatively stable. The study also presents a protocol for measuring this ecosystem process.
During the last three months, Dr. Milan Janda (Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, www.antlab.mx) together with Jacob Yombai and Ali Posman from the research and conservation NGO, New Guinea Binatang Research Center (www.baloun.entu.cas.cz/png) completed a National Geographic Society funded expedition to study insects living in the forests of Bougainville.
The article in Systematic Entomology provides the results of the first phylogenetic and biogeographic study of otherwise neglected butterflies of the subtribe Leptotina (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), widely distributed in all tropical and subtropical areas in the world.
Using larvae of several odonate species including both top and intermediate-level predators, we show that the effects of habitat complexity and predation risk on trophic interactions are not additive and in next studies multiple factors should be considered.
