funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23A2063);the Gansu Province Top-notch Leading Talents Project(E339040101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41771290,42377043,41773086).
Tenebrionid beetles represent a crucial arthropod taxon in the Gobi desert ecosystems owing to their species richness and high biomass,both of which are essential for maintaining ecosystem health and stability.However...
funded by the National Science Centre of Poland(grant no.2021/41/B/NZ8/00474).
Aggregations of juveniles are dominant forms of social life in some insect groups.Larval societies are shaped by competitive and cooperative interactions of the larvae,in parallel with parental effects.Colonies of nec...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number:31960117);the Miaozi Project in Science and Technology Innovation Program of Sichuan Province(grant number:2022006).
Blister beetles(Coleoptera:Meloidae)produce a natural defensive toxin cantharidin(CTD),which has been used for various cancer treatments and other diseases.Currently,the lack of chromosome-level reference genomes in M...
funded by the project“NOCLOT—NuOvi farmaCi anticoaguLanti dalla biOdiversiTàdei meloidi”financed by Regione Lazio(grant nos.A0375-2020-36555 and CUP F85F21003680009);co-funded by MIUR-Italy Grants of Departments of Excellence—L.232/2016—art.1 cc.314–337 awarded to the Department of Science of Roma Tre University(2018–2022 and 2023–2027);supported by the project PON—Ricerca e Innovazione(MUR;Project Code:999900_PON_RTD_A7-G-15023_SCIENZE);support of NBFC to the University of Roma Tre—Department of Science and Sapienza University—Department of Biology and Biotechnologies,“Charles Darwin”,funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research,PNRR,Missione 4 Componente 2,“Dalla ricerca all’impresa”,Investimento 1.4(Project CN00000033);supported also by Rome Technopole,PNRR grant M-4C-2Inv.1.5 CUP F832B22000040006 to MAB.
Blister beetles(Coleoptera:Meloidae)are currently subdivided into three subfamilies:Eleticinae(a basal group),Nemognathinae,and Meloinae.These are all characterized by the endogenous production of the defensive terpen...
European mountain systems have played a crucial role in shaping the distribution of species and of their genetic diversity during the Quaternary climatic changes,with the establishment of allopatric patterns across ma...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41925008,42222201,and 42288201);Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research project(2019QZKK0706);Y.-D.L.is supported by a scholarship granted by the China Scholarship Council(202108320010).
Dear Editor,The Cretaceous-Paleogene(K-Pg)mass extinction precipitated one of the most profound restructurings of biodiversity in recent geological history.Despite the extinction of many iconic groups,particularly the...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970434,32270470).
This study focused on and examined the traditional Lucanus fortunei group comprising more than 60%of all Lucanus taxa in China.Each species treatment includes a description,distribution,collecting methods,natural hist...
This research was supported by grant No.QK23020008,funded by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic.
Snags are an important component of beech forests that promote biodiversity.However,their occurrence is completely marginal in managed stands.Creating snags in these stands would greatly enhance biodiversity.We invest...
supported by Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology(Grant No.002/2040221134).
In engineering,connections between components are often weak areas.Unreasonable connection methods can easily reduce the strength of components,resulting in unpredictable failure modes.In nature,numerous connection me...
The study was funded by the National Science Centre of Poland(grant no.2016/21/B/NZ8/00788).
Large carrion is inhabited by highly variable and interactive communities of insects.Positive interactions in carrion insect communities have been recently the focus in carrion ecology.In contrast,competition between ...