Publications by authors named "Martin Pivarci"
Article Synopsis
- Insects show functional flexibility in insulin signaling due to various insulin receptor (InR) types, which may control traits like wing and caste variations.
- A detailed analysis of InR sequences in 118 insect species reveals two significant gene clusters formed by ancestral duplication, with unique evolutionary features like the loss of the tyrosine kinase domain.
- Experimental silencing of three InRs in the linden bug indicates their crucial roles in wing development, highlighting differences in insulin signaling's influence on polyphenism across different insect groups.
Circadian clocks keep organisms in synchrony with external day-night cycles. The free running period (FRP) of the clock, however, is usually only close to-not exactly-24 h. Here, we explored the geographical variation in the FRP of the linden bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, in 59 field-lines originating from a wide variety of localities representing geographically different environments.
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