A group of biologists has studied Nasonia parasitic wasps, which are about the size of a sesame seed, and they serve as one of the best models to dissect and characterize the evolution of insect ...

While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these species, rare males occasionally appear. Whether these males retain ...

Chapter 1. Overview of polyembryony -- Chapter 2. Polyembryony in encyrtid parasitoids. Chapter 3. Host-polyembryonic parasitoid interactions -- Chapter 4. Sociality in polyembryonic parasitoids -- ...

Grape phylloxera -- the insect that nearly wiped out wine production at the end of the 19th century in France -- hijacks a grape vine's reproductive programs to create a leaf gall, which it uses as a ...

Neonicotinoid insecticides, while meant to target insect nervous systems, threaten reproductive health in mammals.

A damaging bacteria with an uncanny ability to pass itself from insect mothers to eggs meets its genomic match in a tiny variety of parasitic wasp, a recent discovery by Associate Professor of ...