In the human brain, hundreds of billions of nerve cells are interconnected in the most complicated way, and only when these interconnections are correctly made, can the brain function properly. This is no different for insects, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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Since the 1980s, increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves have contributed to more deaths than any other extreme weather event. The fingerprints of extreme events and climate change are widespread in the natural world, ...
Ecology
Jan 8, 2019
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For red flour beetles, being a female in a male world is advantageous. Unlike humans, where this situation traditionally confers a disadvantage, female flour beetles in male-dominated groups seem to reproduce better and live ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2018
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As part of an international consortium, INRA researchers, in partnership with the CEA and INRIA , have sequenced one of the first genomes of a moth from the superfamily Noctuoidea: Spodoptera frugiperda, or armyworm. This ...
Biotechnology
Sep 27, 2017
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A team of researchers at the University of Cologne has for the first time succeeded in observing the amniotic sac in insects. The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), a pest of stored grains around the world, served as ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 1, 2016
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Elizabeth Droge-Young has long been fascinated by the mysteries and motivations behind sexual selection. But the promiscuity among females of one particular species—the red flour beetle—had her particularly stumped. These ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aided by a genomic map of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists are plotting a kind of genetic sabotage on the pest’s basic life functions ...
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