funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects 32370550 and 32300385;the Science Foundation of Hebei Normal University(L2023B21).
Behavioral division is essential for the sustainability and reproduction of honeybee populations.While accumulating evidence has documented that antibiotic exposure interferes with bee behavioral divisions,how the gut...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170495,22278241);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0901700);a grant from the Institute Guo Qiang,Tsinghua University(2021GQG1016);the Department of Chemical Engineering-iBHE Joint Cooperation Fund.
Nosema ceranae,a parasite that parasitizes and reproduces in the gut of honeybees,has become a serious threat to the global apiculture industry.RNA interference(RNAi)technology can be used to inhibit N.ceranae growth ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.32030071,31730012)。
Flowers in the tea family (Theaceae) are bowl-shaped,with numerous anthers presenting large amounts of freely accessible pollen simultaneously.Species that flower mainly in winter and early spring are pollinated by be...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant Number:51475258。
Our understanding of the nervous tissues that affect the wing flapping of insects mainly focuses on the brain,but wing flapping is a rhythmic movement related to the central pattern generator in the ventral nerve cord...
The financial support was granted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32272935,Z.L.);the COLOSS Ricola Award for Excellence(Z.L.);the Earmarked Fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(CARS-44,T.J.);the Lvyangjinfeng Program of Yangzhou(YZLYJFJH2021YXBS155,Z.L.).
Honeybees are the most critical pollinators providing key ecosystem services that underpin crop production and sustainable agriculture.Amidst a backdrop of rapid global change,this eusocial insect encounters a success...
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators of flowering plants and agricultural crops contributing annually to billions of dollars in revenues to crop production. Honeybees have an average lifespan between 8...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFB3400200);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(3212012);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52075038);the Opening Project of the Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering(Ministry of Education),Jilin University(KF20200001);the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Tribology,Tsinghua University(SKLTKF20B06)。
Inspired by the dynamic wet adhesive systems in nature,various artificial adhesive surfaces have been developed but still face different challenges.Crucially,the theoretical mechanics of wet adhesives has never been s...