Scrutinising the British Monarchy

Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain

Chemical ecology: Reprogramming a termite monarchy.

authors identified a tyrosinase-like enzyme, NspF, that was homologous to tyrosinaselike GriF in grixazone biosynthesis. Tyrosinases contain a binuclear copper cluster and have known functions as monoand diphenol oxidases (for example, in melanin production), in keeping with the elucidated role of GriF. However, because a traditional N-oxidase was absent from the 4,3-HNBAm gene cluster, the aut...

Evolution. Sex...only if really necessary in a feminine monarchy.

C RE D IT :M A RC O U LI A N A T he honey bee society was famously described as “The Feminine Monarchy” by the cleric Charles Butler in 1634. Honey bees and their relatives—including all hymenopteran societies—qualify for this label because their colonies are headed by one or a small number of fertile queens. These queens produce a large number of sterile or nearly sterile daughter workers and,...

Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church*

The mid-sixteenth century saw dramatic transformations in the image of the Russian monarchy. In 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (1530–84) adopted a new title, that of tsar. Powerful images of the tsar and his realm also appeared in Russian works of art, architectural monuments, literary texts and court rituals. The historian David Miller sees court art and ritual as attempts to build a new national p...

The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany