Animals can alter their foraging behavior through associative learning, where an encounter with an essential resource (e.g., food or a reproductive opportunity) is associated with nearby environmental cues (e.g., volatiles). This can subsequently improve the animal’s foraging efficiency. However, when …

Most endogenous viruses, an important proportion of eukaryote genomes, are doomed to slowly decay. Little is known, however, on how they evolve when they confer a benefit to their host. Bracoviruses are essential for the parasitism success of parasitoid wasps, whose genomes they integrated ~103 million …

Het gaat al enkele jaren wereldwijd steeds slechter met bijen en vlinders. Nederland is hierop geen uitzondering. Door versnippering, habitatverlies, het gebruik van pesticiden en het toepassen van monoculturen worden deze groepen steeds verder in het nauw gedreven. Met name bijen zijn van groot belang …