US President Donald Trump's administration has halted Harvard University's ability to enroll foreign students. International students at the university will be forced to transfer to another school or ...

Despite the growing threat of pharmaceutical pollution, we lack an understanding of whether and how such pollutants influence animal behavior in the wild. Using laboratory- and field-based experiments...

In this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial fa...

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Our systematic review reveals a major lack of methodological rigor within the field of research on insect-associated microbiota. The small percentage of studies that control for contamination suggests...

Alteration in microbes changed the contents of oviposition-deterrent pheromones on the Spodoptera litura egg surface

Pesticides can modulate gut microbiota (GM) composition, but their specific effects on GM remain lar