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Aging and nutritional stress impacts on cellular processes
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Evolution's pharmacology: Deep orthology of socially transferred proteins
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Gene family diversification in the black soldier fly
Global content and functional analysis of in vivo macromolecular complexes
How effective are current conservation policies at reversing insect decline?
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Identifying and characterising novel invertebrate ion channel receptors
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Regulation of dendritic and synaptic plasticity by metabolic reactive oxygen species
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Sexual selection in the giant coreid bug
The effects of nutrition on the insect skeleton
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