Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short proteins with antimicrobial activity. A large portion of
known AMPs originate from insects, and the number and diversity of these molecules in …

Insects possess an immune system that protects them from attacks by various pathogenic
microorganisms that would otherwise threaten their survival. Immune mechanisms may deal …

Background Circadian clocks allow organisms to anticipate daily fluctuations in their
environment by driving rhythms in physiology and behavior. Inter-organismal differences in …

Herbivorous insects have evolved diverse mechanisms enabling them to feed on plants with
suboptimal nutrient availability. Low nutrient availability negatively impacts insect herbivore …

Honey produced by the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) is valued nutritionally
and medicinally by Indigenous peoples, but its antimicrobial activity has never been formally …

The house fly, Musca domestica, occupies an unusual diversity of potentially septic niches
compared with other sequenced Dipteran insects and is a vector of numerous diseases of …

Background Insecticide resistance is a substantial problem in controlling agricultural and
medical pests. Detecting target site mutations is crucial to manage insecticide resistance …

Aphids (Aphidoidea) are a diverse group of hemipteran insects that feed on plant phloem
sap. A common finding in studies of aphid genomes is the presence of a large number of …

Abstract Background The rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae is one of the most important
agricultural pests, causing extensive damage to cereal in fields and to stored grains. S …

Thrips palmi is a widely distributed major agricultural pest in the tropics and subtropics,
causing significant losses in cucurbit and solanaceous crops through feeding damage and …