supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG Ha 6300/6-1)and by the Volkswagen Foundation with a Lichtenberg Professorship to JTH.VB is supported by the Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities,Spain,within the Ramon y Cajal Program(RYC2021-032144-I).
Dear Editor,The Eocene(ca.56–34 million years ago)has become an important time to study due to the global warming at the time(e.g.,Inglis et al.,2020;Agterhuis et al.,2022;Tierney et al.,2022;Setty et al.,2023),hence...
Dear Editor,Insect-fungal symbioses are fruitful testing grounds for examining coevolutionary theories,from host specificity(Stranda&Obrycki,1996;Rohrlich et al.,2018),arms-race scenarios(Pedrini et al.,2015;Stock et ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 52305321 and 62273246);The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20230496);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(2023M732536 and 2024T170630);Jiangsu Province Excellence Postdoctoral Program(2023ZB218);The National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFB4702202);The Jiangsu Provincial Key Technology R&D Program(BE2021009-02).
Micro aerial vehicles(MAVs)have flexibility and maneuverability,which can offer vast potential for applications in both civilian and military domains.Compared to Fixed-wing/Rotor-wing MAVs,Flapping Wing Micro Robots(F...
supported by the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32021001);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M742271)and Bühler Group.
Insects,as a dominant portion of animal biomass,are present in all terrestrial ecosystems and perform important ecological roles such as pollination,her-bivory,carnivory and decomposition.Insects play a crucial role i...
Insects represent an important taxon for the functioning of ecosystems. They also contribute to human and animal nutrition and are vector agents of several diseases. In Congo-Brazzaville the diversity of entomofauna i...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32160666 and 32370523);the Guizhou Province Science and Technology Support Project([2022]General 239).
Insects and microorganisms are ubiquitous in almost all ecosystems and contribute significantly to ecosystem stability(Schowalter et al.2018;Crespo-Pérez et al.2020;Sun et al.2023;Sveen et al.2023).Due to climate cha...
CONAHCyT(Consejo Nacional de Humanidades Ciencia y Tecnologia)for scholarship support(941376).
The accelerated growth of aquaculture has encouraged the search for new techniques and inputs to increase the yield of various aquaculture species,considering the health and welfare of the organisms.Functional food de...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Number:2023YFD1700502);Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter,Nankai University,(Grant Number:63181206);the Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations,China(Grant Number:YYJC202102).
Cyclic dinucleotides(CDNs)play important physiological roles in bacteria,mammals and insects as a novel class of signaling molecules.However,the application of CDNs in agricultural pest control has not been reported y...
supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830074);the“Pioneer”and“Leading Goose”R&D Program of Zhejiang(No.2023C02030);the Program for Chinese Innovation Team in Key Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(2016RA4008)。
Dear Editor,Insect saliva is formed and secreted by the salivary gland,which is vital for various physiological processes,such as feeding and for viral transmission.More recently,omic approaches,such as transcriptomic...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31500331,32071527).
Background Interactions between alien plants and insect herbivores in introduced ranges may determine their invasion success. However, few studies have investigated whether alien plants respond differently to native a...