After describing the symptoms, he pointed to the distant culprit: a perverse dipteran, accompanied by recommendations to avoid it as much as possible. On January 6, 1964, Professor André Lemaire ...

Hardly anything is known about the genetic basis and mechanism of male-killing. Recently, a gene called oscar, in the bacterium Wolbachia, was implicated in killing male corn borer moths by ...

In our experimental system, the salivary glands of the dipteran Chironomus tentans, it has been possible in a unique manner to visualise in the electron microscope the assembly and transport of a ...