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 …

The evolution of insect resistance to insecticides is frequently associated with
overexpression of one or more cytochrome P450 enzyme genes. Although overexpression …

Background The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important model
organism for the study of gene function in development and physiology, for ecological and …

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 …

The adult insect brain is composed of neuropils present in most taxa. However, the relative
size, shape, and developmental timing differ between species. This diversity of adult insect …

The evolution of imaginal cells, or stem cell-like cells, contributed to the spectacular
diversification of holometabolous insects, which undergo complete metamorphosis. The …

This paper summarizes our current knowledge on the expression and assumed function of
Drosophila and (other) arthropod segmentation gene orthologs in Onychophora, a closely …

The neuroblast timer genes hunchback, Krüppel, nubbin and castor are expressed in
temporal sequence in neural stem cells, and in corresponding spatial sequence along the …

Nuclear receptors are a family of transcription factors that are often responsive to small
ligands, allowing for efficient gene expression-level responses to a stimulus. The average …

The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has become an important insect model organism
in developmental genetics and evolutionary developmental biology. The observation of …