and they serve as one of the best models to dissect and characterize the evolution of insect genomes. Inside the wasp's reproductive organs, Wolbachia hide out and pass from the mother's ovaries ...

The researchers found a particularly high number of Symbiodolus bacteria in the insects' reproductive organs ... Symbiodolus evades its host's immune system, invades cells and is transmitted ...

Natalisin is part of insects' and arthropods' peptidergic system -- a genetic network ... natalisin is linked to reproductive function and mating behavior in insects and arthropods." ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 -- Wasps have a unique social system among insects, with a large number ... composed of close relatives so that non-reproductive helping behavior can be favored by kin ...

he and Sheffield colleague Jens Rolff propose that a burst of so-called juvenile hormone triggered by mating revs up the insects’ reproductive system but with a dire cost: a weakened immune system.

have developed what they call the “toxic male technique”, where insects are genetically engineered to express the venom proteins of other species in the glands of their reproductive system.

But it is these features that attract insects and other animals, which, in turn, carry genetic material from flower to flower. The video describes various parts of the reproductive system ...