One hundred years of phase polymorphism research in locusts

HJ Pflüger, P Bräunig - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2021 - Springer
One hundred years ago in 1921, Sir Boris Uvarov recognized that two locust species are
one species but appearing in two different phases, a solitarious and a gregarious phase. As …

Studying phenotypic variation and DNA methylation across development, ecology and evolution in the clonal marbled crayfish: A paradigm for investigating …

G Vogt - The Science of Nature, 2022 - Springer
Animals can produce different phenotypes from the same genome during development,
environmental adaptation and evolution, which is mediated by epigenetic mechanisms …

Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats

OM Palacios-Gimenez, J Koelman, M Palmada-Flores… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Repetitive DNA sequences, including transposable elements (TEs) and
tandemly repeated satellite DNA (satDNAs), collectively called the “repeatome”, are found in …

Transposable element expansion and low-level piRNA silencing in grasshoppers may cause genome gigantism

X Liu, M Majid, H Yuan, H Chang, L Zhao, Y Nie, L He… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Transposable elements (TEs) have been likened to parasites in the
genome that reproduce and move ceaselessly in the host, continuously enlarging the host …

The evolutionary patterns of genome size in Ensifera (Insecta: Orthoptera)

H Yuan, Y Huang, Y Mao, N Zhang, Y Nie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genomic size variation has long been a focus for biologists. However, due to the lack of
genome size data, the mechanisms behind this variation and the biological significance of …

Sizing Up the Onychophoran Genome: Repeats, Introns, and Gene Family Expansion Contribute to Genome Gigantism in Epiperipatus broadwayi

S Sato, TJ Cunha, BAS De Medeiros… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Genome assemblies are growing at an exponential rate and have proved indispensable for
studying evolution but the effort has been biased toward vertebrates and arthropods with a …

Genome size evolution in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae)

K Sun, Y Lu, Y Huang, H Huang - Systematic Entomology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) are known for their significantly enlarged
genome compared to other insects. However, our understanding of the evolutionary …

Schistocerca neuropeptides–an update

L Ragionieri, R Verdonck, H Verlinden… - Journal of Insect …, 2022 - Elsevier
We compiled a comprehensive list of 67 precursor genes encoding neuropeptides and
neuropeptide-like peptides using the Schistocerca gregaria genome and several …

Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science

T Nakamura, G Ylla, CG Extavour - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Transcriptomic datasets, genome assemblies, and gene annotations have
recently been published for different orthopteran species.•Functional genomics studies …

[HTML][HTML] IPM-Biological and integrated management of desert locust

LI Shuang, SQ Feng, H Ullah, XB Tu… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - Elsevier
Locusts have caused periodic disasters in the recorded history of humankind. Up to now,
locust disaster is still the biggest threat to the world's agricultural production. The desert …