Journal of computational neuroscience
Apr 23, 2015
Inter-segmental coordination is crucial for the locomotion of animals. Arthropods show high variability of leg numbers, from 6 in insects up to 750 legs in millipedes. Despite this fact, the anatomical and functional organization of their nervous sys...
Journal of computational neuroscience
Feb 3, 2015
Understanding the patterns of interconnections between neurons in complex networks is an enormous challenge using traditional physiological approaches. Here we combine the use of an information theoretic approach with intracellular recording to estab...
Journal of invertebrate pathology
Sep 1, 2025
The 100 years of research, development, commercialization and use of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) since their discovery in the 1920s have seen impressive progress. Nowadays, many EPN products, based on a relatively limited number of EPN species, ...
Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology
Aug 1, 2025
Goji berry is an important economic crop, yet pest infestations pose a significant threat to its yield and quality. Traditional pest identification mainly relies on manual inspection by experts with specialized knowledge, which is subjective, time-co...
Current opinion in insect science
Jun 1, 2025
Changes in gene regulatory networks (GRNs) underlying the evolution of traits have been intensively studied, with insects providing excellent model cases. In studies using Drosophila, butterflies, and other insects, several well-known cases have show...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 9, 2025
Since every flight ends in a landing and every landing is a potential crash, deceleration during landing is one of the most critical flying maneuvers. Here we implement a recently-discovered insect visual-guided landing strategy in which the divergen...
Artificial life
May 1, 2025
Insect-inspired navigation strategies have the potential to unlock robotic navigation in power-constrained scenarios, as they can function effectively with limited computational resources. One such strategy, familiarity-based navigation, has successf...
Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society
Mar 1, 2025
Insects, a majority of animal species, rely on innate immunity and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are a part of their innate immunity, to combat diverse parasites and pathogens. These peptides have applications ranging from agriculture to antim...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2025
Insects rely on olfaction in many aspects of their life, and odorant receptors are key proteins in this process. Whereas a plethora of insect odorant receptor sequences is available, most of them are still orphan or uncompletely characterized, since ...
Briefings in functional genomics
Dec 6, 2024
RNA interference (RNAi) technology is widely used in the biological prevention and control of terrestrial insects. One of the main factors with the application of RNAi in insects is the difference in RNAi efficiency, which may vary not only in differ...