Aquaporins are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the rapid, selective transport of water—and in certain cases, small solutes such as glycerol—across cell membranes. In insects, these proteins ...

The field of insect molecular genetics and physiology explores the complex genetic and biochemical networks that govern insect development, adaptation and homeostasis. With Drosophila melanogaster as ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...

Nuss is an associate professor of entomology and has studied many different insects and other arthropods throughout his career. His current research interests are focused on the physiology of ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising new insect breathing mechanism that is analogous to lung ventilation in humans. CHICAGO —- Scientists have discovered a surprising new insect breathing ...

Few people are fans of stink bugs, mosquitoes, or boll weevils, but insects play a key role in the circle of life that makes up the planet's environment. In fact, world-renowned biologist E. O. Wilson ...

Principal disadvantage of most of the recent approaches to reconstructions of the insect evolution is due to comparison of the species by formal character sets with unknown functional relations. This ...

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Insects outnumber us 200 million to one. They thrive in environments where humans wouldn’t last minutes. We mostly perceive them as pests - yet without bugs, entire ecosystems would collapse, crops ...