Freshwater crayfish immunity has received great attention due to the need for urgent
conservation. This concern has increased the understanding of the cellular and humoral …

Freshwater crayfish is an important commodity as well as a successful model for studies on
crustacean immunity. Due to the ease with which they are kept and the available methods …

Background Salmonid fishes exhibit high levels of phenotypic and ecological variation and
are thus ideal model systems for studying evolutionary processes of adaptive divergence …

Background Crustaceans have been studied extensively as model systems for nervous
system function from single neuron properties to behavior. However, lack of molecular …

The crayfish plague caused by the pathogen Aphanomyces astaci has decimated the
European and Asian populations of freshwater crayfish and represents an important threat to …

Background Cold tolerance is a key determinant of temperate insect distribution and
performance. Chill-susceptible insects lose ion and water homeostasis during cold …

Pseudomonas plecoglossicida is a vital pathogen that poses a substantial risk to
aquaculture. Small RNAs (sRNAs) are non-coding regulatory molecules capable of sensing …

Global warming is causing plastic and evolutionary changes in the phenotypes of
ectotherms. Yet, we have limited knowledge on how the interplay between plasticity and …

Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata is a vegetable pest that has spread worldwide. It
belongs to the Coccinellidae family, whose members exhibit remarkable diversity, both in …

In the last 15 years, considerable attempts have been undertaken to develop the obligately
parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis as a new model in biology. Its …