The Sunn pest, Eurygaster integriceps Puton (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae), is the most important pest of wheat and barley in wide areas of the world. Different aspects of the insect's life history have been studied, but to date nothing is known about their microbial symbionts. Here, the contribution of symbiotic bacteria to the fitness of the bug was investigated by combining two different approac...

Using ‘the transparent’ as its lens, this article discusses three scenes from Joey Soloway’s Transparent, aiming to trace how it invites reflection on the advantages and risks of visibilisation well plights recompenses invisibility. When scholars political science, social science or economics discuss transparency, many share an overwhelmingly positive understanding it, which has, lately, come u...