Myriad tiny insect species take to the air to engage in windborne migration, but entomology
also has its 'charismatic megafauna'of butterflies, large moths, dragonflies and locusts. The …

In the wake of constant improvements in sequencing technologies, numerous insect
genomes have been sequenced. Currently, 1219 insect genome‐sequencing projects have …

Insects are the largest group of animals on the planet and have a huge impact on human life
by providing resources, transmitting diseases, and damaging agricultural crop production …

Locust plagues threaten agricultural and environmental safety throughout the world,.
Aggregation pheromones have a crucial role in the transition of locusts from a solitary form …

Genome size in mammals and birds shows remarkably little interspecific variation compared
with other taxa. However, genome sequencing has revealed that many mammal and bird …

Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50
million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we …

Orthoptera is the most diverse order among the polyneopteran groups and includes familiar
insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their kin. Due to a long history of …

The marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis is a unique freshwater crayfish characterized
by very recent speciation and parthenogenetic reproduction. Marbled crayfish also represent …

The first insect genome assembly (Drosophila melanogaster) was published two decades
ago. Today, nuclear genome assemblies are available for a staggering 601 insect species …

Background Relatively little is known about the genomic basis and evolution of wood-
feeding in beetles. We undertook genome sequencing and annotation, gene expression …