Abstract. Invertebrate pests pose one of the most significant threats to global agriculture. Trap-based surveillance is widely used to monitor the presence

Research Scientist developing RNA‑based biopesticides, applying dsRNA and RNAi to protect horticultural crops through innovative molecular science.

A pivotal SMBE regional meeting in Brisbane on the interface of protein structure, function, and evolution.

The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments. To address this, we present an AI system that creates expert...

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Zintellect - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Insect Genetics and Molecular Biology - USDA-ARS-PWA-2025-0071

Plant resistance (R) and pathogen avirulence (Avr) gene interactions are central to pathogen recognition and disease resistance in crops. However, functional characterisation of Avr effectors in Pucci...

Citizens of the Sea has been given a significant boost from Minderoo Oceanomics from Western Australia. “We are thrilled to welcome Minderoo to our family of supporters,” says Adele Fitzpatrick, Execu...

Remarkable advances in high-throughput sequencing have enabled major biological discoveries and clinical applications, but achieving wider distribution and use depends critically on further improvemen...

This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

Is Roche going to "knock it out of the park" or "jump the shark"? Everyone I know is excited, even if many of them are sceptical, about the Feb 20th webinar and what we will learn about SBX. Alex Dick...

Discovering, describing and cataloguing global species diversity remains a fundamental challenge both for biodiversity research and for the management and conservation of biodiversity. Among animals,....

Haplotype independence contributes to genome evolution under ancient asexuality.

Anopheles mosquitoes are vectors of human malaria, and better understanding of them has implications for public health. Here, the authors apply Hi-C, FISH, RNA-seq, and ChIP-seq techniques to comprehe...

Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditional FISH has several limitations, including ​​limited p...

Controls have now been imposed on the movement of fruit and vegetables in Papatoetoe, Auckland, where an Oriental fruit fly was found yesterday.

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

Rust fungi are pathogens that impact plants of environmental, agricultural, cultural, and economic importance. Their mechanisms of pathogenicity are not well-understood but are likely governed by effe...