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Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

Biological Conservation, 2020
The fate of humans and insects intertwine, especially through the medium of plants. Global environmental change, including land transformation and contamination, is causing concerning insect diversity loss, articulated in the companion review Scientists'
M. Samways, P. Barton, K. Birkhofer, Filipe Chichorro, Charl Deacon, T. Fartmann, C. Fukushima, R. Gaigher, J. Habel, C. Hallmann, M. Hill, A. Hochkirch, L. Kaila, M. Kwak, D. Maes, S. Mammola, J. Noriega, A. B. Orfinger, Fernando Pedraza, J. Pryke, F. Roque, J. Settele, J. Simaika, N. Stork, F. Suhling, C. Vorster, P. Cardoso   +26 more
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Hyperactive ice‐binding proteins stabilize cell membranes and improve resistance to dehydration stress in Caenorhabditis elegans

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
TisIBP8, a fungal‐derived hyperactive ice‐binding protein, helps Caenorhabditis elegans survive dehydration. It localizes near cell membranes, reduces cell damage, and helps maintain membrane structure during drying. These results suggest that ice‐binding proteins can protect cells from dehydration stress as well as freezing stress.
Daiki Shimose, Kotaro Ozaki, Ryohei Kuriyama, Yuka Ikemoto, Kazuhiro Mio, Yuji C. Sasaki, Tatsuya Arai, Sakae Tsuda, Yoichi Shinkai, Masahiro Kuramochi   +9 more
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Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns

Global Change Biology, 2020
Insects are among the most diverse and widespread animals across the biosphere and are well‐known for their contributions to ecosystem functioning and services.
J. Harvey, R. Heinen, R. Gols, M. Thakur
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Evaluating the involvement of autolysosomes in the nuclear translocation of fluorescent proteins

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Endogenously expressed fluorescent proteins can be degraded by autophagy and transported to cell nuclei via the nuclear pore complex. But in some cell lines, for example, HeLa cells which are positive for immunoreactivity of a receptor ligand, such as UCN I, in cell nuclei, fusion of autolysosome with the nuclear envelope is involved in the nuclear ...
Keiichi Ikeda
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond chemoreception: diverse tasks of soluble olfactory proteins in insects

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2018
Odorant‐binding proteins (OBPs) and chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are regarded as carriers of pheromones and odorants in insect chemoreception. These proteins are typically located in antennae, mouth organs and other chemosensory structures; however ...
P. Pelosi, I. Iovinella, Jiao Zhu, Guirong Wang, F. Dani   +4 more
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Edible Insects and Sustainable Development Goals

Insects, 2021
Simple Summary The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), seventeen urgent topics of action by all country, aim to reach ambitious and hopefully targets, such as peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future ...
R. Moruzzo, S. Mancini, A. Guidi
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Flowers and Insects. XXIII [PDF]

Botanical Gazette, 1892
The flower groups are divided into (i) a social set, whose flowers are in heads, spikes, or close umbels, so that insects pass from one to another without taking wing or climbing; and (2) a non-social set. The latter contains 54.4 per cent of the flowers, and is divided into Ma, I2I long-tongued bee flowers, and II adapted to birds, hawk-moths, and ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Effects of IGFBP4 deficiency on human preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation through the IGF1R/AKT pathway

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
IGFBP4 knockdown (KD) impairs preadipocyte proliferation and is associated with IGF1R protein downregulation and attenuated AKT phosphorylation. The mechanisms by which IGFBP4 KD influences the IGF1R/AKT signaling pathway involve newly synthesized proteins and lysosomal degradation pathways. Created in BioRender.
Yujia Guo, Sandy Richter, Christoph Bach, Wieland Kiess, Anna Kirstein, Diana Le Duc, Antje Garten   +6 more
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ATZ‐1 promotes DNA replication efficiency to maintain normal meiotic function

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Absence of ATZ‐1 interferes with meiotic DNA replication and cell cycle function via CHK‐1. This causes downstream defects associated with DNA damage and genomic integrity. Taken together, this study suggests that ATZ‐1 influences DNA replication efficiency and cell cycle function to maintain normal meiotic function.
Taylin E. Gourley, Luke W. Molesworth, Nethma H. Waduge, Fahimeh Eskandari, Peter R. Boag, Gregory M. Davis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2022
The estimated figure of two billion people consuming insects mentioned in the 2013 FAO/WUR report about edible insects has been cited many times over. This editorial asks four questions to determine the accuracy of the estimated figure: how to define an ‘
A. van Huis, A. Halloran, J. Van Itterbeeck, H. Klunder, P. Vantomme   +4 more
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