Background Insect ovarioles are classified into two categories: panoistic and meroistic, the
later having apparently evolved from an ancestral panoistic type. Molecular data on …

Molecular aspects of chorion synthesis in insects have been studied deeply in species with
meroistic ovaries. Information available in insects with panoistic ovaries is principally …

… GraphPad Prism 6 Demo software, La Jolla, CA). Differences between expression levels
were examined using the pair-wise fixed reallocation randomization test (performed using the …

During insect oogenesis, the follicular epithelium undergoes both cell proliferation and
apoptosis, thus modulating ovarian follicle growth. The Hippo pathway is key in these processes, …

Background Insect eggshells must combine protection for the yolk and embryo with provisions
for respiration and for the entry of sperm, which are ensured by aeropyles and micropyles, …

… BgNrv2 clusters in the Nrv2 node and has a sequence of P. humanus as a sister group,
which is also phylogenetically consistent given that this species is the only hemimetabolous …

… BgSPARC expression in –CA is significantly reduced with respect to controls (* P(H1)=0.04),
while the JH treatment (-CA+JH) significantly increased SPARC expression with respect to …

… normalized values against dsMock (reference value 1), and are expressed as the mean ±
SEM (n = 3); the asterisk indicates statistical significant differences with respect to controls (p < …

Insects are the dominant group of animals on Earth. Despite this abundance, most of our
knowledge about many aspects of their biology and development come from a unique model, …

… lines (LSD with Benjamini Hochberg correction, p < 0.05) and different upper-… p < 0.05).
NS above group of bars denotes no significant differences among lines and/or type of line (p …