Diapause, the dormancy common to overwintering insects, evokes a unique pattern of gene
expression. In the flesh fly, most, but not all, of the fly's heat shock proteins (Hsps) are up-…

Antarctica's terrestrial environment is a challenge to which very few animals have adapted.
The largest, free-living animal to inhabit the continent year-round is a flightless midge, …

Background Relatively little is known about the genomic basis and evolution of wood-feeding
in beetles. We undertook genome sequencing and annotation, gene expression assays, …

The Colorado potato beetle is one of the most challenging agricultural pests to manage. It
has shown a spectacular ability to adapt to a variety of solanaceaeous plants and variable …

Although the immediate effects of temperature stress are well documented, the longer‐term
effects of such stresses are more poorly known. In these experiments, we investigate the …

Partial clones of the Sarcophaga crassipalpis heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) and of heat
shock cognate 70 (hsc70) were developed by RT-PCR and library screening respectively. …

Heat‐shock protein 23 (hsp23) and hsp70 are both known to be strongly up‐regulated during
pupal diapause in the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis. This prompted us to investigate …

In this study we probe the molecular events underpinning diapause observed in overwintering
females of Culex pipiens. Using suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) we have …

Two actin genes cloned from Culex pipiens L. are upregulated during adult diapause.
Though actins 1 and 2 were expressed throughout diapause, both genes were most highly …

Rapid cold-hardening (RCH) is well known to increase the tolerance of chilling or cold shock
in a diverse array of invertebrate systems at both organismal and cellular levels. Here, we …