Enzymes for ecdysteroid biosynthesis: their biological functions in insects and beyond

R Niwa, YS Niwa - Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Steroid hormones are responsible for the coordinated regulation of many aspects of
biological processes in multicellular organisms. Since the last century, many studies have …

Genomics of adaptation to host-plants in herbivorous insects

JC Simon, E d'Alencon, E Guy… - Briefings in …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Herbivorous insects represent the most species-rich lineages of metazoans. The high rate of
diversification in herbivorous insects is thought to result from their specialization to distinct …

Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

MC Harrison, E Jongepier, HM Robertson… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient transposable elements transformed the uterine regulatory landscape and transcriptome during the evolution of mammalian pregnancy

VJ Lynch, MC Nnamani, A Kapusta, K Brayer, SL Plaza… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
A major challenge in biology is determining how evolutionarily novel characters originate;
however, mechanistic explanations for the origin of new characters are almost completely …

Insect sterol nutrition: physiological mechanisms, ecology, and applications

X **g, ST Behmer - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Insects, like all eukaryotes, require sterols for structural and metabolic purposes. However,
insects, like all arthropods, cannot make sterols. Cholesterol is the dominant tissue sterol for …

Elephantid genomes reveal the molecular bases of woolly mammoth adaptations to the Arctic

VJ Lynch, OC Bedoya-Reina, A Ratan, M Sulak… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Woolly mammoths and living elephants are characterized by major phenotypic differences
that have allowed them to live in very different environments. To identify the genetic changes …

DrosoPhyla: resources for drosophilid phylogeny and systematics

C Finet, VA Kassner, AB Carvalho… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster is a pivotal model for invertebrate development,
genetics, physiology, neuroscience, and disease. The whole family Drosophilidae, which …

Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti

D Copetti, A Búrquez, E Bustamante… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Few clades of plants have proven as difficult to classify as cacti. One explanation may be an
unusually high level of convergent and parallel evolution (homoplasy). To evaluate support …

Transcriptional regulators of ecdysteroid biosynthetic enzymes and their roles in insect development

T Kamiyama, R Niwa - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Steroid hormones are responsible for coordinating many aspects of biological processes in
most multicellular organisms, including insects. Ecdysteroid, the principal insect steroid …

Does host plant adaptation lead to pesticide resistance in generalist herbivores?

W Dermauw, A Pym, C Bass, T Van Leeuwen… - Current opinion in insect …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Link between host plant adaptation and resistance evolution was critically
assessed.•No clear causal relationship was found between both evolutionary …