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
Entrance into diapause represents a case of phenotypic plasticity which is based on a deep change of gene transcription. Among others, the transcription of genes coding for heat shock proteins of the family Hsp70 kDa is also altered. We assessed the competence of the bugs for responding to heat- and cold-stresses by up-regulation of these genes.