Scientists identify potential new target for disrupting mosquito reproduction

A longstanding mystery in mosquito biology has been solved, opening a potential new path for controlling mosquitoes and the ...

Insects in the tropics are already near their heat limits. Climate change could push many beyond survival

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...
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Invisible Anatomy in the Fruit Fly Uterus

A new UC Davis study reveals previously unknown cell types in the female reproductive tract of Drosophila fruit flies. The knowledge could help in studies of fertility in general, and in managing ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Student Spotlight on Mika Matera-Vatnick ’21: Researching Insect Reproduction Genetics

When Mika Matera-Vatnick ’21 received President Martha E. Pollack’s email in March announcing the closing of campus, her first thought was, “What am I gonna do with my flies?” Matera-Vatnick, like ...
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Discovery of bacterial proteins that induce asexual reproduction in insects

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...
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Insect reproduction; [proceedings of the society's second symposium held on 19th-20th September, 1963] Edited on behalf of the society by K.C. Highnam

Cytogenetic mechanisms in insect reproduction / M.J.D. White -- Studies on early stages of insect oogenesis / R.C. King -- Endocrine relationships in insect reproduction / K.C. Highnam -- Feeding and ...
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The evolution of insect mating systems / edited by David M. Shuker and Leigh W. Simmons

"This book is published on the occasion of the Royal Entomological Society's International Symposium on 'The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems' in St. Andrews, September 4-6, 2013. All symposium ...