A 'vital step forward' in understanding how insects respond to seasonal changes in the tropics The study's findings reinforce how seasonality is a key driver of flexible adaptations in the timing of ...

Short-term exposure to a rise in temperature can cause long-term damage to insects' ability to reproduce A warming world harms insects' ability to reproduce, which could have long-term consequences, ...

A research group found that in female fruit flies, microorganisms enhance reproductive function, boosting the number of cells that form eggs and the number of mature eggs. This is done by controlling ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

The evolution of sex remains one of biology's greatest puzzles. While sexual reproduction dominates across the animal kingdom ...

Osaka, Japan – For many of us, when we think of microbiomes, our first thoughts are probably about the beneficial microorganisms that live in our guts. But now, researchers from Japan and US have ...