Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are responsible for fast excitatory synaptic transmission in insect central nervous system. Their role as targets for commercial insecticides have resulted in extensive studies ...

Helicoverpa armigera is an agricultural pest that causes billions of dollars' worth of damage each year. As H. armigera has evolved resistance to insecticides, an understanding of resistance genes will provide useful ...

Aphids exhibit fascinating biological features including parthenogenesis, symbiosis, altruism and host-plant preference; all of which would be better understood if genetic tools and molecular biological techniques were ...

Angiosperm leaves are typically polar structures with a distinct arrangement of cell types along the adaxial-abaxial (upper-lower) axis. Studies of leaf development in the model dicot plant Arabidopsis thaliana have shown ...

The development of synthetic insecticides in the mid 20th century lead to a revolution in pest control. However, issues with environmental toxicity, adverse human exposure and insecticide resistance have meant new safer ...

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common single disorder associated with intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). FXS is fundamentally caused by a trinucleotide CGG sequence repeat expansion ...

The process by which eukaryotic microorganisms preferentially utilise glucose as a carbon source is coordinated by a network of sensory and signalling pathways, which converge at the transcriptional level to control the ...

The opportunistic fungal pathogen of humans, Talaromyces marneffei, is one of very few pathogens in an order of over a thousand species and the only species that has the capacity to switch between two morphologically ...

Insecticides are often used to control insect pests, but resistance to these chemicals arises quickly, leading to agricultural losses and public health concerns. Understanding how insects cope with insecticides is necessary ...

Many species are currently threatened by the direct and indirect effects of anthropogenically driven climate change. The elevation of global temperatures and increase in variability in both temperature and precipitation ...