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Genome Elimination Mediated by Gene Expression from a Selfish Chromosome [PDF]

, 2020
Numerous plants and animals harbor selfish B chromosomes that “drive” or transmit themselves at super-Mendelian frequencies, despite long-term fitness costs to the organism.
Akbari, Omar S., Antoshechkin, Igor, Dalla Benetta, Elena, Ferree, Patrick M., Nguyen, Hoa Quang My, Yang, Ting   +5 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, AV Alyokhin, B Burnet, B King, BH King, C Johnson, C Ribeiro, C Rowcliffe, DE Bellamy, E Jang, E Jang, E Lewis, EM Callaway, F Pompanon, F Zhang, GB Carvalho, GW Green, H Dingle, H Dingle, HS Pereira, J Brady, J Jaenike, J Kennedy, J Mckenzie, Jasper C. Simon, JR Martin, K Branson, K Iwanaga-Sawabe, K Mikasa, K Mikasa, K Mikasa, KA Osborne, KA Suiter, KG Iliadi, KI Sakai, L Barton Browne, L Luo, L Nunney, L Nunney, LH Andersen, M Feder, M Rowland, MA Vargas, MDR Jones, MDR Jones, Michael H. Dickinson, ML Cornelius, NJ Armes, P Landolt, RE Isaac, SD Stewart, T Magwere, TA Markow, TA Markow, TW Sappington, V Dethier, William B. Dickson, YH Belgacem   +57 more
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The pace and shape of ant ageing

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2071-2083, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age‐dependent extrinsic mortality might influence queen lifespan, and how the effect of age‐independent extrinsic mortality needs further study, accounting for ...
Luisa M. Jaimes‐Nino, Jan Oettler
wiley   +1 more source

Whole genome shotgun phylogenomics resolve the diving beetle tree of life

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 940-974, October 2025.
A new and strongly supported phylogeny of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) is presented using the largest genomic dataset to date. Laccophilinae and Coptotominae + Lancetinae are early diverging lineages excluded from a large monophyletic clade comprising the remaining eight subfamilies. We identify seven remaining problems in the backbone of the phylogeny,
Johannes Bergsten, Johan A. A. Nylander, Oscar E. Ospina, Alan R. Lemmon, Kelly B. Miller   +4 more
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Embryo Microinjection and Transplantation Technique for Nasonia vitripennis Genome Manipulation. [PDF]

J Vis Exp, 2017
The jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis has emerged as an effective model system for the study of processes including sex determination, haplo-diploid sex determination, venom synthesis, and host-symbiont interactions, among others. A major limitation of working with this organism is the lack of effective protocols to perform directed genome modifications ...
Li M, Bui M, Akbari OS.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Exploring Plant α‐Amylase Inhibitors: Mechanisms and Potential Application for Insect Pest Control

Biotechnology Journal, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2025.
Graphical Abstract and Lay Summary In this study, we address the importance of α‐amylases in insect pests, the possible biochemical role of α‐amylase inhibitors in plant resistance to insect pests, the molecular relationships between plant α‐amylase inhibitors and insect α‐amylases, and the biotechnological potential of proteinaceous α‐amylase ...
Marcos Fernando Basso, Arnubio Valencia‐Jiménez, Fabrizio Lo Celso, Isabel Rodrigues Gerhardt, Thomas Joseph V. Higgins, Maria Fatima Grossi‐de‐Sa   +5 more
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First person – Shannon Taylor

Biology Open, 2019
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shannon Taylor is first author on ‘The torso-like gene functions
doaj   +1 more source

Nestboxes as habitat for insects, especially for flies and their parasitoids [PDF]

, 2012
Aus Nistkästen wurden nach dem Ausfliegen der Vögel etwa 500 Nester entnommen und die darin vorhandenen Insekten herausgesucht oder mit einem Eklektor abgesammelt.
Abraham, Rudolf, Peters, Ralph S.
core  

Non-canonical dorsoventral patterning in the moth midge Clogmia albipunctata [PDF]

, 2017
This is the final version of the article. Available from BioMed Central via the DOI in this record.Background Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are of central importance for dorsal–ventral (DV) axis specification.
Alcaine-Colet, A, Jaeger, J, Jiménez-Guri, E, Wotton, KR   +3 more
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Courtship Is a Major Factor of Mating‐Shortened Male Lifespan in an Egg Parasitoid

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.
Mating is vital for population survival but often leads to reduced post‐mating longevity in both sexes. In many insects, sperm‐related factors are thought to cut male longevity, while in Anastatus disparis, mating also affects male longevity, with courtship being the main cause. Transcriptomic analyses of A.
Zi‐Yin Wang, Jing Li, Jia‐Min Tang, Lan‐Feng Qiu, Hao‐Yuan Hu, Peng‐Cheng Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source