Welfare Research Program of Zhejiang Province(LQ21C140006);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32372516 and 32230086);Key Projects of Ningbo Natural Science Foundation(2023j015)for the support.
In insects,melanism,a fundamental pigmentation process,is of significant importance in evolutionary biology due to its complex genetic foundation.We investigated the role of the RNA-binding gene Musashi(msi)in melanis...
Collection of the substantial part of the data and the completion of the study were supported by the Academy of Finland(projects 122133,122144,122180,127047,203156,208016,214653,268124,276671,311929,and 316182);L.S.was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic(DKRVO 2019-2023/5.1.b,National Museum,00023272);V.L.was supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences(RVO 679859939);Z.O.was supported by the Erasmus+programme of the European Union.
Color polymorphism offers rich opportunities for studying the eco-evolutionary mechanisms that drive the adaptations of local populations to heterogeneous and changing environments.We explored the color morph diversit...
the Academy of Finland(projects 276671 and 311929).
Env ironmental pollution is currently identified as one of the major drivers of rapid decline of insect populations,and this finding has revitalized interest in insect responses to pollution.We tested the hypothesis t...
This research was supported in part by the College of Natural Science and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station(Project#1644);the National Science Foundation(DEB 9201122,DEB 9981608,DEB-0716683,and DEB 0918879)。
Polymorphisms for melanic form of insects may provide various selective advantages.However,melanic alleles may have significant/subtle pleiotrophic“costs.”Several potential pleiotrophic effects of the W(=Y)‐linked ...
Insect body pigmentation and coloration are critical to adaption to the environment. To explore the mechanisms that drive pigmentation, we used the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CR...
In polymorphic mammalian species that display multiple color forms, those with dark, or melanic pelage would be prone to overheating, especially if they live in warm climates, because their fur absorbs solar energy at...