Molecular Understanding of Insect Reproductive Biology
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2851
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Drosophila; spermatogenesis; oogenesis; fertilization; embryogenesis
Interests: insect reproductive regulation; insecticide stress; sublethal effect; insect molting development; chitin; juvenile hormone
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gametogenesis and fertilization are both the end and the beginning of the circle of life. The sperm and egg are highly specialized cells, and only they can transmit the instructions for making an organism from one generation to the next. How do these germ cells arise? How do the haploid sperm and egg contact each other and fuse together? How does an undifferentiated cell (fertilized egg) develop to be an active organism composed by many various cells? What are the instructions in the nucleus and cytoplasm that allow them to form the new organism? How does the complex environment (including bacteria) affect animal reproduction? This Special Issue of Insects welcomes a wide variety of articles on these questions. Research showing the molecular mechanisms of mating behavior, reproductive competition, or sex determination is also very welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yu-Feng Wang
Prof. Dr. Hong Yang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- spermatogenesis
- oogenesis
- fertilization
- embryogenesis
- reproductive physiology
- sex determination
