Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality

SW Nicolson - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nectar, the main floral reward for pollinators, varies greatly in composition and
concentration. The assumption that nectar quality is equivalent to its sugar (energy) …

Combinatorial codes and labeled lines: how insects use olfactory cues to find and judge food, mates, and oviposition sites in complex environments

A Haverkamp, BS Hansson, M Knaden - Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Insects, including those which provide vital ecosystems services as well as those which are
devastating pests or disease vectors, locate their resources mainly based on olfaction …

Locust density shapes energy metabolism and oxidative stress resulting in divergence of flight traits

B Du, D Ding, C Ma, W Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Flight ability is essential for the enormous diversity and evolutionary success of insects. The
migratory locusts exhibit flight capacity plasticity in gregarious and solitary individuals …

A hard day's night: cyanobacteria in diel cycles

DG Welkie, BE Rubin, S Diamond, RD Hood… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that are influential in global geochemistry and
are promising candidates for industrial applications. Because the livelihood of cyanobacteria …

Glucose as a major antioxidant: when, what for and why it fails?

A Cherkas, S Holota, T Mdzinarashvili, R Gabbianelli… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
A human organism depends on stable glucose blood levels in order to maintain its
metabolic needs. Glucose is considered to be the most important energy source, and …

Impacts of larval host plant species on dispersal traits and free-flight energetics of adult butterflies

VM Pocius, S Cibotti, S Ray, O Ankoma-Darko… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Animals derive resources from their diet and allocate them to organismal functions such as
growth, maintenance, reproduction, and dispersal. How variation in diet quality can affect …

Multi-enzymatic activities of ultrasmall ruthenium oxide for anti-inflammation and neuroprotection

C Wu, X Han, W Feng, Z Liu, L Chen, B Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Artificial enzymes to mimic the endogenous antioxidant system are promising candidates for
treating and manipulating the in vivo dysregulated redox homeostasis. Though progresses …

Flight-fecundity tradeoffs in wing-monomorphic insects

N Tigreros, G Davidowitz - Advances in insect physiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Winged insects often spend considerable amounts of energy in flight, searching for food,
escaping predators, and dispersing. In females, flight is hypothesized to reduce resources …

The importance of isotopic turnover for understanding key aspects of animal ecology and nutrition

WA Carter, U Bauchinger, SR McWilliams - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Stable isotope-based methods have proved to be immensely valuable for ecological studies
ranging in focus from animal movements to species interactions and community structure …

Combined metabolome and transcriptome analysis reveals key components of complete desiccation tolerance in an anhydrobiotic insect

A Ryabova, R Cornette, A Cherkasov… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Some organisms have evolved a survival strategy to withstand severe dehydration in an
ametabolic state, called anhydrobiosis. The only known example of anhydrobiosis among …