EXPRESSION OF METHYL FARNESOATE EPOXIDASE (MFE) AND JUVENILE HORMONE ESTERASE (JHE) GENES AND THEIR RELATION TO SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE STINGLESS BEE MELIPONA INTERRUPTA (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE)

Abstract Social organization in highly eusocial bees relies upon two important processes: caste differentiation in female larvae, and age polyethism in adult workers.Juvenile Hormone (JH) is a key regulator of both processes.Here we investigated the expression of two genes involved in JH metabolism - mfe (biosynthesis) and jhe (degradation) - in th

Red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinoceros Linn.(Coleoptera: Scarabidae) and Black headed caterpillar Opisina arenosella Walker (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) are the three among major insect pests of coconut in India.Grubs of Red palm weevil (RPW) enter and complete their life cy

Machine learning algorithms pervade contemporary society.They are integral to social institutions, inform processes of governance, and animate the mundane technologies of daily life.Consistently, the outcomes of machine learning reflect, reproduce, and amplify structural inequalities.The field of fair machine learning has emerged in response, devel

We consider the problem of integrating a given differential equation in algebraic functions, which arose together with the integral calculus, but still is not completely resolved in finite form.The difficulties that modern systems of computer algebra face in solving it are examined using Maple as an example.Its solution according to the method of L

Samuel Bulteau,1,2 Marie Grall-Bronnec,1,2 Pierre-Yves Bars,3 Edouard-Jules Laforgue,1 François Etcheverrigaray,4 Jean-Christophe Loirat,3 Caroline Victorri-Vigneau,2,4 Jean-Marie Vanelle,1 Anne Sauvaget1 1CHU de Nantes, Addictology and Liaison Psychiatry Department, Nantes, France; Yucca Root 2University of Nantes-University of Tours, INSER