Tracking the red flour beetle in grain storage facilities could become easier, thanks to research to identify a key gene in this grain-feeding pest.
... protozoa and insects, they discovered that a gene from the red flour beetle could produce telomerase in copious amounts, and a stable form. "That was really the breakthrough," Skordalakes says. "Once ...
Among flour beetles, male homosexuality can up the chances of reproducing with the opposite sex, a new study finds.
... supplies and are a huge commercial pest, but the humble flour beetle is about to play a significant role in the management ...
... species spread. To reach their conclusions, they studied red flour beetles--beetles attracted to wheat ... , each initially home to 20 red flour beetles. Although the landscapes were identical, there were considerable ...
... .com) -- Aided by a genomic map of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists are plotting a kind ...
... Anglia. Research into the breeding habits of the red flour beetle, published today in Proceedings of the Royal ... Gage, the new research into the promiscuous red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) measured how male ...
... ." In this study, the researchers looked at broad-horned flour beetles, where males have massively enlarged ... this is a sex-specific trait. By selectively breeding the beetles for larger or smaller mandible size, the researchers ...
... pests (rice weevil, red flour beetle and drugstore beetle) and two household pests (German cockroach and bed bug). In tests, individuals ... tested generated all signal types, but red flour beetles mostly wriggled, German cockroaches typically ...
... drives a female to sleep around? For red flour beetles, too much inbreeding may do the trick, according to new research showing that when populations of the beetles become inbred, females get frisky ...
... versa. The research focuses on the broad-horned flour beetle, Gnatocerus cornutus, but the team believes ... the animal kingdom, even mammals. Male flour beetles with large jaws have the most mating success ...
... genome ever sequenced. The first was the red flour beetle, a pest of stored grains. The genome ... genes The mountain pine beetle separated from the red flour beetle -- the only other beetle genome sequenced ...
