Insects

A relatively new mosquitocidal strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis jegathesan (Btj, strain 367), isolated from Malaysia was assayed for its larvicidal efficacy against field-derived early fourth-instar larvae of the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasci…

Astrocytes maintain ion and neurotransmitter homeostasis within the central nervous system. They do so by expressing channels, receptors and transporters such as excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) along their highly ramified arbours. EAATs are well known to be glutamate …

Environmental temperatures are among the most significant factors affecting the ecology, behaviour, and evolution of organisms across all levels of biological organization. As such, understanding the impacts that natural thermal regimes have on organisms is central to the study …

For over 40 years, the sexual selection hypothesis of infanticide has sparked primatological interest in the evolutionary basis of this presumptively adaptive behavior. Infanticide by males has been largely accepted as a reproductive strategy in that when a new dominant sire kil…

The Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, and the New World screwworm (NWS), Cochliomyia hominivorax, are devastating insect pests that cause billions of dollars in damage each year. These insects cause myiasis in warm blooded mammals, in which the larvae feed from flesh of…

The UN has designated 2021-2030 the decade of restoration, reflecting a global recognition that our planet is changing so rapidly that conservation alone is not enough, and we must restore some of the ecosystems we have lost. Ecosystems, however, are extremely complex and thus f…