The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 310-317 (8 pages) Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria that manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts. The nature of the ...

“It’s really exciting,” said microbiologist Steven Sinkins of the University of Glasgow, U.K., who was not involved in the work. “For Wolbachia researchers this has been the big unanswered ...

Cambrian lobopodians are important for understanding the evolution of arthropods, but despite their soft-bodied preservation, the organization of the cephalic region remains obscure. Here we describe ...

It's well-known that the world's rain forests contain an enormous variety of arthropods, the group of animals that includes insects and spiders. But a new study shows that this variety is simply ...

There’s been a virgin birth in the shark world. A captive female white-spotted bamboo shark has reproduced despite genetic tests that show its offspring had no fathers. Scientists believed the process ...

Despite a plethora of exceptionally preserved trilobites, trilobite reproduction has remained a mystery. No previously described trilobite has had unambiguous eggs or genitalia preserved. A new study ...

Shun-ichiro Takano, Midori Tuda, Keiji Takasu, Naruto Furuya, Yuya Imamura, Sangwan Kim, Kosuke Tashiro, Kazuhiro Iiyama, Matias Tavares, Acacio Cardoso Amaral Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

A neuropeptide that regulates sexual activity and reproduction in insects has been identified by a team of entomologists at Kansas State University. Scientists say identifying the neuropeptide ...