Highlights•Uric acid acts as a nitrogenous waste, antioxidant, nitrogen store and
pigment.•AMTs are important as ammonia transporters and sensors.•Mosquito anal papillae …

Many animal species employ highly conspicuous traits as courtship signals for successful
mating. Fireflies utilize their bioluminescent light as visual courtship signals. In addition to …

Adult fireflies exhibit unique flashing courtship signals, emitted by specialized light organs,
which develop mostly independently from larval light organs during the pupal stage. The …

Copper (Cu) contamination has become a severe problem in freshwater environments
worldwide. The freshwater mussel Anodonta woodiana is used as a unique bioindicator to …

Excessive use of azole fungicides in agriculture poses a potential threat to honeybees and
other pollinator insects; however, the detailed effects of these molecules remain largely …

A unified description involving structural morphology and composition, dispersion of optical
constants, modeled and measured reflection spectra and photonic crystal characterization is …

Chaiphongpachara T, Sumruayphol S. 2019. Geometric morphometrics as a tool for three
species identification of the firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) in Thailand. Biodiversitas 20 …

Bioluminescence is present in organisms across the tree of life and inhabiting diverse
environments on the planet. Light emissions are used for specific communication purposes …

Numerous investigations have been carried out on the spectral distribution of the light of
different species of fireflies. Here we record the emission spectrum of the Indian species of …

Firefly is famously known for the light emission from its abdominal light organ. Light produce
by firefly is known as bioluminescence. Luciferase is the enzyme that catalyze the light …