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Abstract It is long established that queens of social insects, including termites, maintain their reproductive dominance with queen primer pheromones (QPPs). Yet, the QPP chemistry has only been elucidated in a single species of lower termites. By contrast, the most diversified termite family Termitidae (higher termites), comprising over 70% of termite species, has so far resisted all attempts at QPP identification. Here, we show that the queen- and egg-specific sesquiterpene (3 R ,6 E )-nerolidol acts as the QPP in the higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus . This species has a polygynous breeding system, in which the primary queen is replaced by multiple neotenic queens of parthenogenetic origin. We demonstrate that (3 R ,6 E )-nerolidol suppresses the development of these parthenogenetic queens and thus mimics the presence of mature queen(s). It acts as an airborne signal and may be used to optimize the number of queens, thus being the key regulatory element in the special breeding ...

A trained personnel sprays one of the houses in Okanga cell, Yumbe town council in Yumbe district. (Credit: Adam Gule) Adam Gule Journalist @New Vision #Health #Yumbe District #Police #Eviction #Spraying Exercise HEALTH  |  YUMBE  |  SPRAYING YUMBE -  A landlord identified as Hakim and a resident of Takwa cell in Yumbe town council, Yumbe district is in the spotlight for evicting a tenant who allowed her room to be sprayed against mosquitoes in the ongoing indoor residual spray programme. Takwa cell LC1 chairperson Ratib Latigo Moga said, on November 18, 2022, he lead a team of trained personnel to the home of Hakim in order to spray his houses, but his wife blocked them claiming that her husband instructed that the rooms should n...

Abstract Many lepidopteran species produce silk, cocoons, feeding tubes, or nests for protection from predators and parasites for caterpillars and pupae. Yet, the number of lepidopteran species whose silk composition has been studied in detail is very small, because the genes encoding the major structural silk proteins tend to be large and repetitive, making their assembly and sequence analysis difficult. Here we have analyzed the silk of Yponomeuta cagnagella , which represents one of the early diverging lineages of the ditrysian Lepidoptera thus improving the coverage of the order. To obtain a comprehensive list of the Y. cagnagella silk genes, we sequenced and assembled a draft genome using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina technologies. We used a silk-gland transcriptome and a silk proteome to identify major silk components and verified the tissue specificity of expression of individual genes. A detailed annotation of the major genes and their putative products, including their complet...