Traumatic insemination is not the case in three Orius species (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae).

Traumatic insemination (TI) is an extraordinary style of mating behavior wherein the female integument is pierced by the male extragenital structure to transfer the spermatozoa into the female's body through wounding. Flower bugs of the genus Orius belong to the family Anthocoridae (Heteroptera), which is referred to as the "TI family". Males possess sharp shaped extragenitalia, and females receive the extragenitalia using the copulatory tubes, which are specialized extragenital structures in Orius species.

Abnormal swelling of the peritrophic membrane in Eri silkworm gut caused by MLX56 family defense proteins with chitin-binding and extensin domains.

MLX56 family defense proteins, MLX56 and its close homolog LA-b, are chitin-binding defense proteins found in mulberry latex that show strong growth-inhibitions against caterpillars when fed at concentrations as low as 0.01%. MLX56 family proteins contain a unique structure with an extensin domain surrounded by two hevein-like chitin-binding domains, but their defensive modes of action remain unclear.

Size and shape distributions of primary crystallites in titania aggregates.

The primary crystallite size of titania powder relates to its properties in a number of applications. Transmission electron microscopy was used in this interlaboratory comparison (ILC) to measure primary crystallite size and shape distributions for a commercial aggregated titania powder. Data of four size descriptors and two shape descriptors were evaluated across nine laboratories.

Flufenoxuron, an insect growth regulator, promotes peroral infection by nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) budded particles in the silkworm, Bombyx mori L.

A novel method was developed to infect perorally the silkworm Bombyx mori L. with budded particles of nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) using flufenoxuron, an insect growth regulator. NPV vectors are used to obtain proteins that occur naturally in minute amounts.