Science of Insect Rearing Dynamics: Discovery-Based Inquiry
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Physiology, Reproduction and Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editor
Interests: insect rearing system dynamics; insect diets; insect nutritional biochemistry and physiology; insect rearing education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Insect rearing is inherently a cross-disciplinary, interaction-driven process. Reared insects are expected to thrive in the context of a controlled artificial system designed to produce high-quality, high-fitness organisms. Insects involved in the rearing process are exposed to and respond to biological activities that are often unlike those impacting native populations, placing them at a crossroads of adaptation.
Many holometabolous insects, for example, exhibit wandering behavior towards the end of their final larval stage. Inherent in the wandering individual are important changes in physiology such as production of different nitrogenous waste products. These insects also undergo shifts in gas exchange proportions altering respiratory quotients. The inquiry and discovery resulting from experiments with factors such as gas exchange, diet profiles (ratios of carbohydrates to lipids to proteins) or environmental factors like temperature all interplay in insect rearing systems. Well-designed studies of these types of complex interactions can lead to a greatly enhanced understanding of the insects and, in turn, a greatly improved rearing/production capability.
Prof. Dr. Allen Cohen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rearing component interactions
- interplay of environmental factors
- rearing genetics and epigenetics
- design of rearing experiments
- stress factors in rearing systems
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