Leaf-winged locust

Winged migration

It is an honor to become a part of the talented group of cell biologists who have received this award before me. While running a research group certainly has its ups and downs, I love being a faculty member and am continuously excited by the prospect of scientific discoveries yet to be made. I have benefited from the support of many people over the years and hope to be able to do the same for o...

Locust flight

Under certain environmental and population conditions some species (the locusts) of Acridid Orthoptera swarm and are capable of migrating hundreds of miles using flight as the primary means of locomotion. Locust flight is a behavior that lends itself to analysis from many approaches and that has attracted considerable research attention for many years. In particular the role of the nervous syst...

Winged helix proteins.

The winged helix proteins constitute a subfamily within the large ensemble of helix-turn-helix proteins. Since the discovery of the winged helix/fork head motif in 1993, a large number of topologically related proteins with diverse biological functions have been characterized by X-ray crystallography and solution NMR spectroscopy. Recently, a winged helix transcription factor (RFX1) was shown t...

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The Indian Locust

In the October and November numbers for 1872, is an article on "locusts,"?a plague as I think becoming more constant than formerly, even in the sandy semi-desert districts of Western Rajpootana, a tract of country which may be regarded as par excellence the home of the locust. In that article it was stated that locusts are annually present in the Western Marwar and Mullannee districts in greate...