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Aging and nutritional stress impacts on cellular processes
Characterising newly discovered neurotransmitter receptors
Community dynamics of soft and hard coral reefs
Conserving the diversity of wild bees in farmland
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of early animals
Epigenetic mechanism of critical period-plasticity in nervous system development
Evolution's pharmacology: Deep orthology of socially transferred proteins
Flow and compartmentalisation across the social circulatory system in honeypot ants
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?
How has the morphology of moths altered in response to anthropogenic change over the past two centuries?
Identifying and characterising novel invertebrate ion channel receptors
Lifespan impacts of metabolic division of labour
Metabolic regulation of brain development
Movement and connectivity conservation for biodiversity
Phenotypic plasticity of feeding in the leaf-footed bugs
Population genomics of invasive Helicoverpa crop pests
Regulation of dendritic and synaptic plasticity by metabolic reactive oxygen species
Repeated adaptation to altitude in Andean butterflies
Sexual selection in the giant coreid bug
The effects of nutrition on the insect skeleton
The impacts of riparian within oil palm on insect movement and behaviour
Tracking global progress towards sustainable agriculture that protects biodiversity and enhances natural capital
Tracking the past to predict the future
Translational regulation via bimolecular condensates
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