Publication in Biomacromolecules describes five sericin genes from a wild silkmoth, A. yamamai; provides whole gene structures and assigns them to major sericin proteins extracted from A. yamamai cocoon.
The debate between two conflicting hypotheses on the origin of tropical species may no longer be reasonable. Tropical hyperdiversity is likely the result of complex evolutionary history, and no single age nor single event seem alone to be important ...
The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently concluded the most detailed and demanding evaluation of the the Biology Centre’s (BC) research and professional activities. International evaluators checked the results of 19 teams from BC for the years 2010 to 2014. The result? All teams have succeeded and six of these are rated excellent, world-class teams.
Biodiversity and the threats to its persistence are not uniformly distributed across the globe and therefore some areas demand comparatively greater scientific attention. If research is biased away from the most biodiverse areas, then this will accentuate the impacts of the global biodiversity crisis and reduce our capacity to protect and manage the natural ecosystems that underpin human...
A new book, Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Central Europe, has been published in the series Zoological keys in the publishing house Academia belonging to the Czech Academy of Sciences. It has been written by Oldřich Nedvěd and contributed by many photographers of nature.
A student of the Gymnasium Česká 64 in České Budějovice, Karolina Bodláková, who has worked in the laboratory of Dalibor Kodrík, Institute of Entomology BC CAS, was awarded a silver medal in the worldwide competition of secondary school students in Chinese Beijing.
Publication in PLoS Genetics features genetic evidence to unequivocally define an intracellular receptor for juvenile hormone.
Using experimental protist metacommunities, we show how dispersal and movement depend on the strength of interspecific interactions.
The islands of South Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia are the most biologically diverse regions on Earth. New findings about how ants spread across the islands of South Pacific were published in the last issue of journal Cladistics.
The European Research Council has awarded EUR 3.35 million “advanced” grant to Vojtech Novotny’s team at the Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
