Nutritional Physiology and Ecology of Insects
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 374
Special Issue Editor
Interests: holometabolous insects; larval nutrition; life-history traits; nutritional ecology; trade-offs; machine learning; foraging; insect-microbiome interactions; speciation; ecological specialisation; physiological adaptations; transcriptomics; genomics; proteomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition underpins all aspects of life and its shapes and forms. In insects, and their diverse and complex developmental modes, nutrition has been central to our understanding of life-histories, behaviours, and trade-offs. This understanding is key not only to advancing our knowledge of ecosystem services provided by insects—and their value to our sustainable societies—but also in allowing us to use nutrition as a means to modulate insect physiology and development in basic and applied contexts. However, a more holistic view of the impacts of nutrition is needed in the field, which integrates theoretical and empirical studies addressing gaps in our understanding of the interplay between genes, gene expression, physiology, behaviour and ecology, linking the effects of nutrition on the genome through to populations and ecosystems.
This Special Issue will provide the forum for high-quality interdisciplinary research in insect nutritional physiology and ecology to be published in a single edition, which can then be used as a reference in the field of nutritional ecology.
We will accept all themes and approaches to insect nutritional physiology and ecology, including (but not limited to) genetics and (functional) genomics, proteomics, organismal biology, population ecology, community ecology and interactions across trophic levels, large-scale spatial-temporal patterns related to nutrition, long-term datasets, mathematical and statistical modelling of animal physiology and behaviour, new methodological developments to measure nutritional trade-offs, nutritional immunology, pollination and ecosystem services. We encourage submissions from single taxa as well as comparative studies. Null results or confirmatory results are welcome, provided that it contains a sufficient sample size and statistics to be deemed high-quality science. Submissions of model organisms, non-model organisms, laboratory experiments and field trials (in small enclosures or natural habitats) are welcomed. All papers should contextualise the findings within the broader literature of insect nutritional physiology and ecology.
Dr. Juliano Morimoto
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- insects
- development
- physiology
- ecology
- statistical modelling
- mathematics
- trade-offs
- condition-dependence
- sexual selection
