Sue Cobey sums up the local dating scene in a single word: brutal. The entomologist is speaking of honeybees, bee mating being her specialty, and she knows the dauntingly steep odds drones, the males, face in fulfilling their urge to spawn. "There can be something like 25,000 drones out there...

Transcriptional Profiles of Mating-Responsive Genes from Testes and Male Accessory Glands of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Ceratitis capitata In recent years, with the aid of next generation sequencing technologies and proteomic approaches, comprehensive studies aimed at the identification and...