Are endosymbionts involved in the ovary development of insects?

Previously I had asked a question "Are "sex pheromones" really produced by insects?" while in the quest to answer this question, we came across a very interesting observation. We developed germ...

07 August 2015 8,131 3 View

What are the use of accessory glands in insects?

We recently found a well developed accessory gland in female B. dorsalis. Upon further examination, we found that they harboured bacteria and one particular bacteria was the major microbiota in...

10 November 2014 9,369 12 View

Can "innate recognition templates" in insects be manipulated or over-written?

07 August 2014 3,526 4 View

Can domesticated insects (e.g. Mulberry Silkmoth, Bombyx mori) show innate oviposition preference?

We conducted oviposition preference in B. mori and found that they still prefer to lay eggs on mulberry leaves. Further we extracted volatiles from mulberry leaves and conducted a GC-EAD and found...

04 May 2014 247 8 View

How do we extract pheromones from butterflies?

I read that the pheromone glands of butterflies are in their wings. Is this true and how do we isolate these pheromones?

04 May 2013 6,701 9 View

How to perform a comet assay on Insect eggs?

I am in need of a protocol for performing the comet assay on insect eggs. Previous protocols were followed but with no results. Please help me in this regard.

11 December 2012 4,343 1 View

How to visualize fungi in infested insect tissue?

Some mango stone weevils grown in our lab are being infected with fungi. We are in need of a method to visualize fungi cells inside the weevil.

11 December 2012 5,555 2 View

Which one is right? Quantifying total phenol content using dry plant sample or fresh plant sample?

To find the total phenol content, i have seen some researchers using dry samples and others fresh samples!! Which one is right? Should we use dry or fresh sample?

10 November 2012 4,522 7 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View