Insect

A parasitic insect, distinct from a mite or tick.

A beetle of the family Meloidae, several members of which supply cantharidin.

A beetle associated with dung as a resource. Brood provisioning and associated microorganisms can create maternal effects.

A dung-beetle species in which pedestal-associated microbiota have been experimentally linked to developmental benefits under some conditions.

A dung-beetle species in which quantitative-genetic and microbial-transmission studies motivate experimentally separating maternal provisioning pathways.

The pea aphid, including host-associated lineages used to study ecological specialization.

A butterfly genus used in studies of warning patterns, mate recognition and gene flow.

The apple maggot fly, with host-associated populations used to study partial reproductive isolation.

A fly genus including experimental models for cell competition and genetic conflict.

A fly species with experimentally characterized sex-ratio drive and suppressor systems.

The ant used in the cited test separating task specialization from individual task efficiency.

Apis mellifera in the cited studies of worker task development and worker policing.

A solitary bee studied as the pollinator targeted by sexual deception in Ophrys sphegodes.

A beetle species used to study sequential insect segmentation and its relationship to the more simultaneous mode in Drosophila melanogaster.

A fruit-fly species used extensively to investigate inheritance, embryonic patterning and germline development.

Drosophila pseudoobscura is the species of insect used in the dietary divergence and mating isolation in Drosophila pseudoobscura experiment. The independently maintained experimental biological populations were not already different species.