The class Insecta has more than 1 million different cataloged species living in almost all
habitats throughout the world, and they encompass many different lifestyles. Understanding …

Lipid metabolism is fundamental to life. In insects, it is critical, during reproduction, flight,
starvation, and diapause. The coordination center for insect lipid metabolism is the fat body …

More than a third of the world population is at constant risk of contracting some insect-
transmitted disease, such as Dengue fever, Zika virus disease, malaria, Chagas' disease …

Two aspects of insect lipid biochemistry differ from the mammalian background. In one
aspect, nearly a hundred years ago scientists demonstrated that the polyunsaturated fatty …

▪ Abstract The study of fat metabolism in insects has received considerable attention over the
years. Although by no means complete, there is a growing body of information about dietary …

The study of adipocyte differentiation and lipid accumulation in insects has been limited by
the lack of a system suitable for analysis of molecular mechanisms. Here, we describe the …

The ability to synthesize lipids is critical for an organism's fitness; hence, metabolic
pathways, underlying lipid synthesis, tend to be highly conserved. Surprisingly, the majority …

The relationship between insect pathogenic fungi and their insect hosts is a classic example
of a co-evolutionary arms race between pathogen and target host: parasites evolve towards …

Worker honey bees undergo a socially regulated, highly stable lipid loss as part of their
behavioral maturation. We used large-scale transcriptomic and proteomic experiments …

Proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids are three major components of the cell. Despite a few
basic metabolic pathways, we know very little about lipids, compared with the explosion of …