the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31572326 & 31172146);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (No. BK2011785);the PAPD of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are diverse and mainly function as molecular chaperones to protect organisms and cells from various stresses. In this study, hsp 18.3, one Tribolium castaneum species-specific shsp、h...
the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions)of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)under REA grant agreement no.333442;the Israel Science Foundation (grant no.442/16)for funding this study.
Animals are exposed in nature to a variety ofstressors.While stress is generally harmful,mild stress can also be beneficial and contribute to reproduction and survival.We studied the effect of five cold shock events v...
The authors thank Camillo Berenos and Sonj a Sbilordo for comments, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for support (Ambizione grants PZ00P3-121777, PZ00P3- 137514, standard research grant 31003A_125144/1 to O. Y. Martin; N. A. G. Kerstes was supported by SNF grant 31003A120451 to K. Mathias Wegner), and the Exper- imental Ecology group at ETH Ztirich for being such excellent hosts.
The many ways parasites can impact their host species have been the focus of intense study using a range of approaches. A particularly promising but under-used method in this context is experimental evolution, because...
A series of field trials were conducted in a commercial food storage facility to evaluate exposure of stored-product insects to aerosol formulations of synergized pyrethrins and the insect growth regulator methoprene....