The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important insect model system
for a variety of topics. With respect to studying gene function, it is second only to the vinegar …

Scarabaeine dung beetles are the dominant dung feeding group of insects and are widely
used as model organisms in conservation, ecology and developmental biology. Due to the …

Genetic screens are powerful tools to identify the genes required for a given biological
process. However, for technical reasons, comprehensive screens have been restricted to …

Abstract The iBeetle-Base (http://ibeetle-base. uni-goettingen. de) makes available
annotations of RNAi phenotypes, which were gathered in a large scale RNAi screen in the …

Effective, ethical pest control requires the use of chemicals that are highly specific, safe, and
ecofriendly. Linalool and β-pinene occur naturally as major constituents of the essential oils …

Background Most of the known genes required for developmental processes have been
identified by genetic screens in a few well-studied model organisms, which have been …

The spectacular radiation of insects has produced a stunning diversity of phenotypes.
During the past 250 years, research on insect systematics has generated hundreds of terms …

The iBeetle-Base provides access to sequence and phenotype information for genes of the
beetle Tribolium castaneum. It has been updated including more and updated data and new …

In holometabolous insects, extensive reorganisation of tissues and cells occurs at the pupal
stage. The remodelling of the external exoskeleton and internal organs that intervenes …

Tribolium castaneum has become an important insect model organism for evolutionary
developmental biology, genetics and biotechnology. However, few protocols for live …