Over the past 30 years, the sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a regular component
of area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programs against several major …

B chromosomes represent additional chromosomes found in many eukaryotic organisms.
Their origin is not completely understood but recent genomic studies suggest that they …

Moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) usually have a pair of differentiated WZ sex
chromosomes. However, in most lineages outside of the division Ditrysia, as well as in the …

Tandem repeats are important parts of eukaryotic genomes being crucial eg, for centromere
and telomere function and chromatin modulation. In Lepidoptera, knowledge of tandem …

The Lepidoptera are an insect order of cultural, economic, and environmental importance,
representing∼ 10% of all described living species. Yet, for all but one of these species …

Background Lepidoptera is one of the most species-rich animal groups, with substantial
karyotype variations among species due to chromosomal rearrangements. Knowledge of the …

Sex determination is a key developmental process, yet it is remarkably variable across the
tree of life. The dipteran family Sciaridae exhibits one of the most unusual sex determination …

The insect order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) represents the largest group of
organisms with ZW/ZZ sex determination. While the origin of the Z chromosome predates the …

Sex-chromosome systems tend to be highly conserved and knowledge about their evolution
typically comes from macroevolutionary inference. Rapidly evolving complex sex …

In butterflies and moths, which exhibit highly variable sex determination mechanisms, the
homogametic Z chromosome is deeply conserved and is featured in many genome …