Insects are the largest animal group on Earth both in biomass and diversity. Their
outstanding success has inspired genetics and developmental research, allowing the …

The honeybee queen is the engine of the colony, laying thousands of eggs that develop into
larvae, nurse bees, and foragers. In turn, pollen and nectar from the environment, matured …

The rigorous balance of endocrine signals that control insect reproductive physiology is
crucial for the success of egg production. Rhodnius prolixus, a blood-feeding insect and …

By genetic manipulations, we study the roles played by insulin-producing cells (IPCs) in the
brain and their target, the corpora allata (CA), for reproductive dormancy in female …

In this study, the reduction of the emerging organic contaminant atrazine in water, was
investigated by adsorption, oxidation and a combination of both technologies. Adsorption …

Summit disease, in which infected hosts seek heights (gravitropism), first noted in modern
times by nineteenth-century naturalists, has been shown to be induced by disparate …

Understanding the social evolution leading to insect eusociality requires, among other, a
detailed insight into endocrine regulatory mechanisms that have been co-opted from solitary …

Abstract The Halloween gene SPOOK (SPO) is involved in the production of the active
metabolite of ecdysteroid, 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), in insects. A previous study showed …

The phenotype of male Hymenoptera and the peculiar role of males has been neglected
and greatly understudied, given the spectacular cooperative behavior of female social …

Subsocial wood feeding cockroaches in the genus Cryptocercus, the sister group of termites,
retain their symbiotic gut flagellates during the host molting cycle, but in lower termites …