Toru Miura

TL;DR: The acquisition of viviparity in Aphididae is considered to be the basis for maternal regulation of these polyphenisms, and through which environmental cues can be transferred to developing embryos through the physiological state of the mother.

TL;DR: Using human cultured cells, it is demonstrated that a tardigrade-unique DNA-associating protein suppresses X-ray-induced DNA damage by ∼40% and improves radiotolerance, indicating the relevance of tardigrate-unique proteins to tolerability and tardigades could be a bountiful source of new protection genes and mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of 48 termite species and combined them with 18 previously sequenced termite mitochondrial genomes for phylogenetic and molecular clock analyses using multiple fossil calibrations.

TL;DR: The development and evolution of aphid bacteriocytes, the host cells that contain the endosymbiotic bacteria Buchnera aphidicola, are studied and it is experimentally demonstrated that bacteriocyte induction and proliferation occur independently of B. aphidICola.