▪ Abstract The mevalonate pathway in insects has two important peculiarities, the absence of
the sterol branch and the synthesis of juvenile hormone (JH), that may have influenced the …

Although a great deal of information is available concerning the role of ecdysone in insect
oogenesis, research has tended to focus on vitellogenesis and choriogenesis. As such, the …

Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50
million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we report …

The cDNA of Apis mellifera vitellogenin was cloned and sequenced. It is 5440 bp long and
contains an ORF of 1770 amino acids (including a putative signal peptide of 16 residues). …

Current approaches for insect gene editing require microinjection of materials into early
embryos. This severely limits the application of gene editing to a great number of insect species, …

Global climate change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity; one of the most important
effects is the increase in the mean earth surface temperature. However, another but poorly …

The feeding cycle of the adult female cockroach Blattella germanica parallels vitellogenesis.
The study of the mechanisms that regulate this cycle led us to look for food‐intake inhibitors …

… Bellés and MD Piulachs), must be determined by a different regulatory mechanism. Expression
of the BgVgR protein in the last instar nymph, when vitellogenesis has not yet begun [25], …

… Bellés and MD Piulachs, unpublished RNA libraries from B. germanica). Still the poor
coverage of the alignments is due to a low-complexity tail on the 3′ end (the last 10 nucleotides) …

New Caledonia is well known as a hot spot of biodiversity whose origin as a land mass can
be traced back to the Gondwanan supercontinent. The local flora and fauna, in addition to …