Insects are the most abundant and diverse class of animals on the planet. One explanation
for their success is their extraordinary ability to successfully consume a wide range of foods …

Insects are the most widespread group of organisms and more than one million species
have been described. These animals have significant ecological functions, for example they …

Microsporidia are a group of obligate intracellular parasites that infect almost all animals,
causing serious human diseases and major economic losses to the farming industry …

In adult females of several insect species, juvenile hormones (JHs) act as gonadotrophic
hormones, regulating egg production. JH binds to its nuclear receptor, Methoprene tolerant …

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 …

Triatomines are vectors of Chagas disease and important model organisms in insect
physiology.“Kissing bugs” are obligatory hematophagous insects. A blood meal is required …

The eight species of bears world-wide consume a wide variety of diets. Some are specialists
with extensive anatomical and physiological adaptations necessary to exploit specific foods …

Large lipid transfer proteins (LLTPs) are extensively involved in various physiological
processes. In the present study, five LLTP sequences encoding apolipocrustacein 1 (apoCr …

Parasitic wasps have long been thought to be unable to synthesize fatty acids de novo, but
recent 13C-labelling studies have challenged this view. It remained unclear, however …

In insects, lipid transfer to the tissues is mediated by lipophorin, the major circulating
lipoprotein, mainly through a nonendocytic pathway involving docking receptors. Currently …