From disaster zones to extreme environments, there remain areas difficult for even humans to reliably access. This poses a ...

While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

Without an insect for the female, the male is usually not allowed to ... "This sexual play may force an evolution of the ...

Both symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer have strongly influenced the evolution of insects," says Roy Kirsch. Dynamic evolution of pectinases The analyses also revealed that the vast majority ...

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Based upon observations of social insects, he reasoned that the extent ... Whereas kin selection likely underlies the evolution of many cooperatively breeding societies, it alone cannot explain ...