The Superworm, Zophobas morio (Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae): A ‘Sleeping Giant’ in Nutrient Sources

Tracheal compression in pupae of the beetle Zophobas morio.

Insects that are small or exhibit low metabolic rates are considered to not require active ventilation to augment diffusive gas exchange. Some pupae with low metabolic rates exhibit abdominal pumping, a behaviour that is known to drive tracheal ventilation in the adults of many species. However, previous work on pupae suggests that abdominal pumping may serve a non-respiratory role. To study th...

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Perhaps the defining issue of our time in history is the emergence of India and the People’s Republic of China as regional military superpowers. This is a direct by-product of large scale industrialisation, as the economies of these billion plus population base nations are able to support increasingly large and modern military force structures. Spare cash and national pride are often a volatile...

The bionator: sleeping giant.

Titin isn't a sleeping giant

A t 3.7 MDa, titin is the largest protein known to exist (1). This giant polypeptide, also known as connectin, forms the backbone of striated muscle myofi brils by assembling the thin (actin) and thick (myosin) fi laments into periodic structural units called sarcomeres. One might expect such an enormous scaffold protein to be immobilized within myofi brils, but da Silva Lopes et al. reveal tha...

Waking the Sleeping Giant(s)!

Sleeping Giant(s)! The ADAMTS Proteases, Extracellular Matrix, and Vascular Disease : Waking the Print ISSN: 1079-5642. Online ISSN: 1524-4636 Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000150043.43083.aa 200...