Insects exhibit a variety of sex determining mechanisms including male or female heterogamety
and haplodiploidy. The primary signal that starts sex determination is processed by a …

Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents
are now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international …

In recent years, our knowledge of the conserved master-switch gene doublesex (dsx) and
its function in regulating the development of dimorphic traits in insects has deepened …

All insects in the order Hymenoptera have haplodiploid sex determination, in which males
emerge from haploid unfertilized eggs and females are diploid. Sex determination in the …

Personality traits are heritable and respond to natural selection, but are at the same time
influenced by the ontogenetic environment. Epigenetic effects, such as DNA methylation, have …

Although the role of DNA methylation in insect development is still poorly understood, the
number and role of DNA methyltransferases in insects vary strongly between species. DNA …

Various primary signals direct insect sex determination. In hymenopteran insects, the
presence of a paternal genome is needed to initiate female development. When absent, …

The doublesex (dsx) gene of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis is described and
characterized. Differential splicing of dsx transcripts has been shown to induce somatic sexual …

Sexually dimorphic traits in insects are subject to sexual selection, but our knowledge of the
underlying molecular mechanisms is still scarce. Here we investigate how the highly …

Sex determination in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, is based on Feminizer (Fem), a W-linked
Fem piRNA that triggers female development in WZ individuals, and the Z-linked Masculinizer …