Investigation of insect immune mechanisms provides important information concerning
innate immunity, which in many aspects is conserved in animals. This is one of the reasons …

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 …

Ectoparasitic mites of the genera Varroa and Tropilaelaps have evolved to exclusively
exploit honey bees as food sources during alternating dispersal and reproductive life history …

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their
environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range of …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that are between 21 and 25 nucleotides in
length and repress gene function through interactions with target mRNAs [1, 2]. The …

What are lipid bodies? One of the problems in answering this apparently simple question is
that these macromolecular proteolipid assemblies can be relatively heterogeneous with …

▪ 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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter updates former reviews on locust polyphenism and also
discusses recent findings. Over 200 articles were published in scientific journals on various …

Interorgan lipid transport occurs via lipoproteins, and altered lipoprotein levels correlate with
metabolic disease. However, precisely how lipoproteins affect tissue lipid composition has …

Unlike most animals, insects lack the capacity to synthesize sterols that are required in lipid
biostructures, as precursors to important steroid hormones and as regulators of …