Warum helfen manche Ameisen ihren Nestgenossinnen in Not und andere nicht? Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt, dass Helferverhalten von Ameisen mit Unterschieden in der Genaktivität im Nervensystem zusammenhä...

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...

Studying long-lived species across the animal kingdom could provide insights into healthy ageing in humans. This study reveals long lifespans and slowed ageing in Heliconius butterflies, identifying t...

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International Union for the Study of Social Insects – International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

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...

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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The influential and controversial Uribe was found guilty in a witness tampering case and is the country’s first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial.

Global warming dramatically increases desiccation risk for insects. To avoid water loss, terrestrial insects are covered with a thin, chemically complex layer of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs), which a...

What scientists know as "mites" is almost certainly an artificial taxonomic group, according to recent phylogenetic analyses and studies using advanced microscopic techniques.