The grubs of longhorn beetles are being used as food commodities and source of medicine in many tribal communities of North Eastern India. The grubs of Batocera rufomaculata and Acalolepta cervina are used as edible foods; whereas, the grubs of Batocera rubra (Synonym of Batocera rufomaculata ...
for 13 generations. In a No Care environment, parents were removed as soon as they had prepared their mouse carcass nest but before their larvae had hatched. By contrast, in the Control environment, the parents were allowed to care for their young until they were ready to leave home...
Cantharidin has recently been used for cancer therapy. Hycleus cichorii and Hycleus phaleratus have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2000 years due to their ability to biosynthesize cantharidin. To understand the role of the chemosensory system in beetle evolution, we ...
•The first study of sarcosaprophagous coleopteran community in southwestern China.•The first study used Schoenly trap in forensic entomology research... Z Lyu,Wan, Li-hua,Yang, Yong-qiang,... - 《Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine》 被引量: 2发表: 2016年 加载更多来源...
In Tim Burton's classic comedy "Beetlejuice", the toxic title character can escape from his inferno only if someone pronounces his name three times in a row. The real-world bombardier beetle escapes from its purgatory—the belly of a predator—by squirting the real thing: boiling-hot pulses...
Insects and insect-derived products have been widely used in folk healing in many parts of the world since ancient times. Promising treatments have at least preliminarily been studied experimentally. Maggots and honey have been used to h... CHERNIACK,E Paul - 《Alternative Medicine Review A Jour...
production, members of the microbiota expressed transcripts that could ferment both 5- and 6- carbon sugars, allowing hexoses and pentoses liberated from the plant cell wall to be converted into substrates that can be used in various anabolic processes, i.e., amino acid or fatty acid ...
(B) From pooled individuals of each species 0.8 μl of haemolymph was used in a 20 μl reaction mixture for the SOD assays using a quantitative microtiter plate method. SOD activity was determined colorimetrically at 440 nm as the inhibition of the reduction of the tetrazolium salt,...
We thank all researchers whose published RNA-seq data were used in this study. We are grateful to Rebecca Plimpton for her assistance with opsin protein modelling. We thank Stephen Richards and the Insect 5000 Genomes Project (Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center;https://www...
As its name suggests, the thistle tortoise beetle (Cassida rubiginosa) feeds on thistle leaves. Its favorite food plant is the field thistle, a dreaded weed in agriculture worldwide. The thistle tortoise beetle, which is considered an important herbivore of the thistles, is used in biological co...