Water is essential to life. Terrestrial insects lose water by evaporation from the body surface
and respiratory surfaces, as well as in the excretory products, posing a challenge made …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Insects have a large ratio of surface area to volume because of their small size; thus, they
face the potential for desiccation in the terrestrial environment. Nonetheless, they constitute …

Mosquitoes transmit numerous pathogens, but large gaps remain in our understanding of
their physiology. To facilitate explorations of mosquito biology, we have created Aegypti …

The role of the mosquito excretory organs (Malpighian tubules, MT and hindgut, HG) in
ammonia transport as well as expression and function of the Rhesus (Rh protein) ammonia …

The anal papillae of mosquito larvae are osmoregulatory organs in direct contact with the
external aquatic environment that actively sequester ions and take up water in dilute …

Voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs) respond to changes in membrane potential (Vm) and
typically exhibit fast kinetic properties. They play an important role in signal detection and …

Vectors of infectious disease include several species of Aedes mosquitoes. The life cycle of
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, consists of a terrestrial adult and an aquatic larval …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play diverse roles in biological processes. Aedes aegypti
(Ae. aegypti), a blood-sucking mosquito, is the principal vector responsible for replication …

Background Many leafhoppers are known as pests and disease vectors of economically
important plants. Previous studies of the physiological functions of vector leafhoppers have …