A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

Most spider species subdue dinner by injecting venom from their fangs. Feather-legged lace weavers swathe prey in silk, then upchuck a killing brew.

HIGHLIGHTS Topline data from Clarity's diagnostic Phase II trial, DISCO, confirms that 64Cu-SARTATE is safe and highly effective compared to ...

This new species of Baeticoniscus represents one of the few cases worldwide in which the description of a new taxon has been ...

Therefore, it is important to understand how aging affects the digestive tract of this insect. In the midgut, regenerative cells are organized in nests replacing the dead cells. This study verified ...

In this study, we report that host complement C3 significantly enhances malaria transmission by modulating the abundance of the antimalarial bacterium Elizabethkingia anophelis in the mosquito midgut.

Plasma membranes from insect midgut cells are separated into apical and basolateral domains. The apical domain is usually modified into microvilli with a molecular structure similar to other animals.

Bases are called using Illumina pipeline Casava 1.8.Reads are mapped to the drosophila genome using Tophat2. Refseq annotations of known exon junctions are provided with -G option.Number of reads on ...