Episode 61: Genetic Control of Courtship Behaviors in Flies and Roaches (Happy Belated Valentine’s Day)

Image: Male genital hook (left) and acrosomes on sperm cells (right) on Supella dominicana, described from amber. (Source: Poiner 2022)
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Read moreImage: “One of the world’s rarest and least understood insects, a grylloblattid ice crawler (Grylloblatta sp.). Photographed live at night on an ice field, Northern California, USA.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons, by way of Alex Wild – a very nice guy I met at a BugShot workshop one year)
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Read moreImage: Partially exposed colony of Lasius niger. Image used under the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0 license. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Read moreImage: Four images of Xanthacrona bipustulata. (Source: Charles Wallace)
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Read moreImage: A photograph of workers from a managed hive of Apis mellifera, the European honeybee. (Source: Charles Wallace)
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Read moreImage: The isolated male genitals (aedeagus) of the beetle Ochthebius maculatus Reiche, 1872. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Read moreImage: “A phylogenetic tree of life, showing the relationship between species whose genomes had been sequenced as of 2006. The very center represents the last universal ancestor of all life on earth. The different colors represent the three domains of life: pink represents eukaryota (animals, plants and fungi); blue represents bacteria; and green represents archaea. Note the presence of Homo sapiens (humans) second from the rightmost edge of the pink segment.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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