Insects are the largest animal group on Earth both in biomass and diversity. Their
outstanding success has inspired genetics and developmental research, allowing the …

Eusocial insects can employ various behavioural and physiological disease defences to
avoid, resist and tolerate pathogen infections in their closely related and packed colonies …

Ips nitidus is a well-known conifer pest that has contributed significantly to spruce forest
disturbance in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and seriously threatens the ecological balance of …

Many insects harbor bacterial endosymbionts that supply essential nutrients and enable
their hosts to thrive on a nutritionally unbalanced diet. Comparisons of the genomes of …

Acquisition of a sterile caste is a key step in insect eusocial evolution; however, the
molecular mechanisms associated with sterile caste development are unclear. To help …

This work was initiated because an old publication suggested that electrocoagulation of four
paraldehyde fuchsin positive cells in the brain of Locusta migratoria might produce a diuretic …

Plant cell wall components are the most abundant macromolecules on Earth. The study of
the breakdown of these molecules is thus a central question in biology. Surprisingly, plant …

Social insects live in closely related family groups but face risks of intrusion and infection by
pathogenic and parasitic microbes. To cope with the microbes invading their nests and …

Social insects form colonies with close relatives and face a high degree of risk of herd
infection by the same pathogen. To prevent the intrusion and infection of pathogens and …

Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels, encoded by the gene para, play a critical role in the
rapid processing and propagation of visual information related to collision avoidance …