Environmental metabolomics is the application of metabolomics to characterise the
interactions of organisms with their environment. This approach has many advantages for …

Publisher Summary This chapter updates former reviews on locust polyphenism and also
discusses recent findings. Over 200 articles were published in scientific journals on various …

Ecometabolomics, which aims to analyze the metabolome, the total number of metabolites
and its shifts in response to environmental changes, is gaining importance in ecological …

Phase change in locusts is an ideal model for studying the genetic architectures and
regulatory mechanisms associated with phenotypic plasticity. The recent development of …

Insects are one of the most successful classes on Earth, reflected in an enormous species
richness and diversity. Arguably, this success is partly due to the high degree to which …

Metabolomic analyses can reveal associations between an organism's metabolome and
further aspects of its phenotypic state, an attractive prospect for many life‐sciences …

Simple Summary The European honey bee, Apis mellifera, is well-known to have two
distinct populations in temperate climate zone: short-living summer bees and long-living …

Juveniles of the leaf beetles in subtribe Chrysomelina have efficient defense strategies
against predators. When disturbed, they transiently expose volatile deterrents in large …

Appl. Entomol. Zool. 38 (2): 241ﾐ248 (2003) Page 1 INTRODUCTION Insects have high
concentrations of trehalose in the hemolymph and they utilize the trehalose as an energy …

The analysis of complex biological samples, principally biological fluids, to obtain global
metabolite profiles using techniques such as high resolution NMR spectroscopy has been …