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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Insects in 2014

Insects, 2015
The editors of Insects would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]
Insects Editorial Office
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Regulatory Mechanisms of Vitellogenesis in Insects

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
Vitellogenesis is pre-requisite to insect egg production and embryonic development after oviposition. During insect vitellogenesis, the yolk protein precursor vitellogenin (Vg) is mainly synthesized in the fat body, transported by the hemolymph through ...
Zhongxia Wu, Libin Yang, Qiongjie He, Shutang Zhou   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Orientation cues for high-flying nocturnal insect migrants: do turbulence-induced temperature and velocity fluctuations indicate the mean wind flow? [PDF]

, 2010
Migratory insects flying at high altitude at night often show a degree of common alignment, sometimes with quite small angular dispersions around the mean.
A Kamikouchi, A La Porta, Alan D. Smith, Alexander Borst, AM Reynolds, AM Reynolds, AM Reynolds, Andy M. Reynolds, B Webb, CH Gibson, CR Wood, CR Wood, D Phong-Anant, Don R. Reynolds, DR Reynolds, DR Reynolds, GA Voth, GK Taylor, GW Schaefer, GW Schaefer, Jason W. Chapman, JCH Fung, JCH Fung, JR Riley, JR Riley, JR Riley, JS Kennedy, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, JW Chapman, KR Sreenivasan, KR Sreenivasan, MR Maxey, PG Mestayer, RA Antonia, S Ayyalasomayajula, S Yorozu, SP Sane, Z Warhaft   +43 more
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Insects in 2018

Insects, 2019
Rigorous peer-review is the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing [...]
Insects Editorial Office
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Nitrogen-to-Protein Conversion Factors for Three Edible Insects: Tenebrio molitor, Alphitobius diaperinus, and Hermetia illucens

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2017
Insects are considered a nutritionally valuable source of alternative proteins, and their efficient protein extraction is a prerequisite for large-scale use.
R. Janssen, J. Vincken, L. V. D. van den Broek, V. Fogliano, C. Lakemond   +4 more
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Sterilizing Insects with Ionizing Radiation

Sterile Insect Technique, 2021
Exposure to ionizing radiation is currently the method of choice for rendering insects reproductively sterile for area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes that integrate the sterile insect technique (SIT).
A. Bakri, K. Mehta, D. Lance
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Waggle Dance as an Intended Flight: A Cognitive Perspective [PDF]

, 2019
The notion of the waggle dance simulating a flight towards a goal in a walking pattern has been proposed in the context of evolutionary considerations. Behavioral components, like its arousing effect on the social community, the attention of hive mates ...
Menzel, Randolf
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A biodiversity hotspot for Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in North America: annotated species checklist for Ottawa, Canada

ZooKeys, 2016
Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the city of Ottawa and its surroundings (a 50-km radius circle, ~7,800 km2) were studied based on 1,928 specimens collected between 1894 and 2010, and housed in the Canadian National ...
Jose Fernandez-Triana, Caroline Boudreault, Joel Buffam, Ronald Maclean   +3 more
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Effect of policosanol from insect wax on amyloid β-peptide-induced toxicity in a transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans model of Alzheimer’s disease

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2021
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder and a serious public health concern, is mainly caused by β-amyloid (Aβ)-induced toxicity.
Xin Zhang, Chenjing Ma, Long Sun, Zhao He, Ying Feng, Xian Li, Jin Gan, Xiaoming Chen   +7 more
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First record of the lac-producing species Kerria nepalensis Varshney (Hemiptera, Kerriidae) from China, with a key to Chinese species [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2021
Lac insects include astonishing species responsible for lac production. Lac is composed of resins, dyes, and shellac wax with significant economic importance.
Nawaz Haider Bashir, Weiwei Wang, Juan Liu, Wei Wang, Hang Chen   +4 more
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