Insect Molecular Biology
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 18412
Special Issue Editors
Interests: honey bee; small hive beetle; invasive pest; trypanosomatids; honey bee virus; deformed wing virus; kashmir bee virus; replicative virus; strand-specific rt-pcr
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular biology approaches applied to entomology are essential to understand a lot of insect behavioral mechanisms. Thanks to developed molecular biology’s techniques, information about the gene structure, control of gene expression, localization, and function/activity of proteins, their interactions, ligands/substrates, and the effect of mutations on gene/protein function have been studied to clarify evolution, ecology, genetic populations, physiology, reproduction, communication and interaction, and signal transmission in insect populations. Further, the studies of interaction, co-evolution, and spill-over of pathogen agents (bacteria, viruses, protozoa, microsporidia, fungi, etc.) have been made easier with molecular biology approaches.
This Special Issue welcomes research with molecular biology approaches in various topics of insect study fields. Short experimental reports, and original research articles, as well as review papers, based on insect behavior, physiology, genomics and metagenomics, proteomics or which utilize both basic and advanced molecular biology approach are welcome and will be taken into consideration for publication in this Special Issue.
Dr. Giovanni Cilia
Dr. Filippo Marzoli
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- molecular biology
- physiology
- genetics
- biochemistry
- insects
- proteomics
- genomics
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