eLife, 2014 Embryonic anterior–posterior patterning is well understood in Drosophila, which uses ‘long germ’ embryogenesis, in which all segments are patterned before cellularization.
Miriam I Rosenberg +3 more
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Silencing of two insulin receptor genes disrupts nymph-adult transition of alate brown citrus aphid [PDF]
, 2017 Insulin receptors play key roles in growth, development, and polymorphism in insects. Here, we report two insulin receptor genes (AcInR1 and AcInR2) from the brown citrus aphid, Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus.
Ding, Bi-Yue +7 more
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Symbiosis As The Way Of Eukaryotic Life: The Dependent Co-Origination Of The Body [PDF]
, 2014 Molecular analyses of symbiotic relationships are challenging our biological definitions of individuality and supplanting them with a new notion of normal part whole relationships. This new notion is that of a \u27holobiont\u27, a consortium of organisms
Gilbert, Scott F.
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A new component of the Nasonia sex determining cascade is maternally silenced and regulates transformer expression. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Although sex determination is a universal process in sexually reproducing organisms, sex determination pathways are among the most highly variable genetic systems found in nature.
Eveline C Verhulst +4 more
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The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The shift from solitary to social behavior is one of the major evolutionary transitions. Primitively eusocial bumblebees are uniquely placed to illuminate the evolution of highly eusocial insect societies.
Amdam, Gro V. +143 more
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Latitudinal variation in circadian rhythmicity in Nasonia vitripennis [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2019 ABSTRACTMany physiological processes of living organisms show circadian rhythms, governed by an endogenous clock. This clock has a genetic basis and is entrained by external cues such as light and temperature. Other physiological processes exhibit seasonal rhythms, that are also responsive to light and temperature.
Silvia Paolucci +5 more
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Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis
BMC Genomics, 2020 Background Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture.
Bart A. Pannebakker +4 more
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Prior Mating Experience Modulates the Dispersal of Drosophila in Males More Than in Females [PDF]
, 2011 Cues from both an animal’s internal physiological state and its local environment may influence its decision to disperse. However, identifying and quantifying the causative factors underlying the initiation of dispersal is difficult in uncontrolled ...
A Tantawy +57 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Sex pheromones play a crucial role in the mate finding process of insects. The information has to be encoded in a species specific manner to avoid fitness costs due to courtship by or even mismating with closely related species.
Joachim Ruther +9 more
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Sex biased expression and co-expression networks in development, using the hymenopteran Nasonia vitripennis. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2020 Sexual dimorphism requires regulation of gene expression in developing organisms. These developmental differences are caused by differential expression of genes and isoforms.
Alfredo Rago +2 more
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