Written by Youssef Hariri
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Genome-scale data have made reticulation increasingly visible in insect systematics, yet the inferential consequences are often compressed into a single bifurcating species tree or treated as secondary discordance. This perspective argues that introgression should be carried explicitly from detection through historical interpretation to classification whenever the evidence warrants it. The central difficulty is not simply detecting gene flow, because incomplete lineage sorting, recombination, su
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Written by David Osei
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Insect life histories depend on molecular systems that maintain macromolecular integrity while allowing growth, reproduction, stress resistance, and developmental transitions to remain responsive to changing conditions. Proteostasis, redox regulation, autophagy, and reproductive endocrinology are usually investigated as partially separate fields, obscuring how their local interactions may constrain or redirect organismal states. Here, evidence from experimentally tractable insect systems is synt
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Written by Kristian Eriksen
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Insect behavior is continuously constrained by energetic condition, but energetic state is not translated into action through a single hunger variable or a fixed endocrine switch. Evidence from Drosophila, mosquitoes, and lepidopteran larvae instead indicates distributed sensing of nutrient availability, peptide and hormonal modulation, competition among homeostatic and reproductive priorities, persistence of internal states, and context-dependent selection among actions. This article develops a
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Written by Mikko Lahtinen
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Insect infection outcomes are often interpreted through pathogen clearance, survival, or immune activation considered separately. This separation can obscure whether a host survives because it restricts pathogen burden, limits the damage associated with a given burden, or preserves function despite the physiological expense of defense. This article develops a proposed immunophysiological framework in which resistance, damage tolerance, immunopathology, and metabolic cost are treated as distinct
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Written by Omar Zayed
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Thermal extremes can affect insects at any developmental stage, but vulnerability is often inferred from a single exposure period, endpoint, or observation time. Such inference is problematic because mortality, developmental disruption, reproductive impairment, physiological injury, carry-over effects, and post-stress recovery can have different thermal sensitivities. This systematic review evaluates evidence published from 2017–2025 on stage-specific responses of insects to extreme or stressful
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Written by Wei Zhang
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Insect epigenetics is often discussed as though developmental plasticity, persistent molecular state, parental effects and transgenerational inheritance formed a single continuum. They do not. This molecular perspective argues that a more useful interpretation is to separate immediate regulatory responses from epigenetic states that persist across developmental transitions, and to separate both from germline transmission. Across insects, chromatin accessibility, DNA methylation, histone modifica
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Written by Rafael Mendoza
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Research on insect cognition has established sophisticated learning, memory, selective information use, and flexible choice in several model systems, but these capacities are often studied as separate traits. This separation can obscure the ecological problem insects actually face: past experience must be retained selectively, current signals differ in reliability and value, internal state alters responsiveness, and actions change the information available next. This integrative review examines
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Written by Wouter De Smet
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Species delimitation in insects increasingly relies on genomic data, yet greater molecular resolution does not automatically resolve the distinction between population structure and species boundaries. The central difficulty is inferential: ongoing or historical gene flow, uneven geographic and life-stage sampling, model misspecification, prior choices, and discordance among mitochondrial, nuclear, morphological, ecological, and reproductive evidence can all change the partitions recovered by an
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Written by Ana Rodrigues
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Large-scale phylogenomics has transformed insect systematics by expanding both taxonomic coverage and the number of loci available for inference. Expansion, however, has not produced a uniform methodological landscape. Sampling depth varies among lineages and taxonomic levels; genomes, transcriptomes, and targeted-enrichment datasets differ in locus recovery and reuse potential; missing data arise through several non-equivalent processes; and large matrices can retain gene-tree conflict or analy
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Written by Krzysztof Wiśniewski
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) in insects are commonly discussed as if they occupy a single continuum from low, beneficial signaling to high, damaging oxidative stress. Recent mechanistic studies instead indicate that biological meaning depends on where reactive species originate, where they act, how long they persist, the physiological state in which they arise, and the strength of evidence linking an oxidation event to function. This state-of-the-art review integrates redox regulation across im
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Written by Ahmed Ben Ali
Published on Vol 5 Issue 2, 2025
Urbanization exposes insects to coupled changes in temperature, artificial light, habitat configuration, vegetation, resource distributions, disturbance, and biotic interactions. Yet urban occurrence is often treated as evidence of a coherent “urban-adapted” phenotype even when studies measure different biological levels and provide very different strengths of evolutionary inference. This systematic map organized peer-reviewed insect evidence published from 2017–2025 around urban environmental f
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