The main current uses of biotechnology for agriculture and related natural resources (ANR)
are for plant and animal breeding and diagnostics, with a few applications in veterinary …

CONTeNTs Introduction...........................................................................................................................
......... 219 Biology and Evolution of the Heliothinae …

Virtually nothing is known about disease resistance in solitary bees, so expressed sequence
tag (EST) databases were developed to search for immune response genes in the alfalfa …

Studies of animal communication systems have revealed that the perception of a salient
signal can cause large-scale changes in brain gene expression, but little is known about …

The fungus Ascosphaera apis is a worldwide fungal pathogen of honey bees. To provide
tools for understanding the dispersal history of this pathogen, strain differences in virulence …

Estrogen receptor-related receptors (ERRs) belong to a subfamily of orphan nuclear
receptors where the proteins are closely related to the estrogen receptors (ERs) in structure …

Advances in sequencing technologies have accelerated the sequencing of new genomes,
far outpacing the generation of gene and protein resources needed to annotate them. Direct …

Background Proteins play a key role in cellular life. They do not act alone but are organised
in complexes. Throughout the life of a cell, complexes are dynamic in their composition due …