... and genetic regulation. We have also created a database of more than 300 optical nanostructures in butterflies and conducted a meta-analysis of the color range, abundance and phylogenetic distribution of each nanostructure class. Butterfly structural colors are ubiquitous in short wavelengths but extremely...

... and livestock improvement is to identify the precise genes and genetic changes that must be engineered to obtain traits of interest. Here, we discuss the advantages of bio-inspired genome editing, i.e. the engineered introduction of natural mutations that have already been associated with traits of interest...

..., Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, Drosophila melanogaster flies and Mus musculus mice. Our molecular understanding of the cell division cycle, embryonic development, biological clocks and metabolism were all obtained through genetic analysis using these species. Yet the ‘big 6’ did not start out as genetic model...

... of Biologists Ltd 2019 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: A gut microbiota transfer influences emotional reactivity in Japanese quails, supporting the existence of a microbiota–gut–brain axis in birds. Microbiota–gut–brain axis Emotion Genetics Bird Studies...

... to genetic predisposition, overnutrition or sedentary living, complications such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are more likely to arise. The vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is used as a model to better understand the mechanisms governing fat metabolism and distribution...

..., Massett and Berk( Massett and Berk, 2005 )tested endurance in three strains of inbred mice and F1 hybrids, all of which ran substantially fewer metres than our C animals. It is also of considerable interest to compare our values for endurance with those from recent studies using direct genetic( Tsao...