Many of the major biological discoveries of the 20th century were made using just six
species: Escherichia coli bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces …

Butterfly eyespots are beautiful novel traits with an unknown developmental origin. Here we
show that eyespots likely originated via cooption of parts of an ancestral appendage gene …

The genetic architecture and neurogenetics of animal migration remain poorly understood.
With a sequenced genome and the establishment of reverse genetic tools, the monarch …

The discovery of new, active DNA transposons can expand the range of genetic tools and
provide more options for genomic manipulation. In this study, a bioinformatics analysis …

Background Genetic sex ratio distorters are systems aimed at effecting a bias in the
reproductive sex ratio of a population and could be applied for the area-wide control of …

Safer and more efficient methods for directing therapeutic genes to specific sequences could
increase the repertoire of treatable conditions. Many current approaches act passively, first …

Background The invasive fruit pest Drosophila suzukii was reported for the first time in
Europe and the USA in 2008 and has spread since then. The adoption of type II clustered …

Tephritid fruit fly pests pose an increasing threat to the agricultural industry due to their
global dispersion and a highly invasive nature. Here we showcase the feasibility of an early …

The black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens, is a promising insect for mitigating solid waste
problems as its larvae are able to bioconvert organic waste into valuable biomass. We …

Tephritid fruit flies are destructive agricultural pests that are the targets of expensive
population eradication and suppression efforts. Genetic pest management is one of the …