This international journal publishes original contributions and mini-reviews in the fields of insect biochemistry and insect molecular biology. Main areas of interest are neurochemistry, hormone and pheromone biochemistry, enzymes and metabolism, hormone action and gene regulation, gene characterization and structure, pharmacology, immunology and cell and tissue culture. Papers on the biochemistry and molecular biology of other groups of arthropods are published if of general interest to the readership. Technique papers will be considered for publication if they significantly advance the field of insect biochemistry and molecular biology in the opinion of the Editors and Editorial Board.

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original contributions
Mini-Review articles

Editors
S. Gill
University of California Riverside Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Riverside, California, 92507, United States Email S. Gill
M. Jindra
Institute of Entomology Czech Academy of Sciences, Branisovska 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic Email M. Jindra
Review Editor
M.R. Strand
University of Georgia Department of Entomology, 120 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia, 30602-2603, United States
Editorial Board
M.J. Adang
University of Georgia Department of Entomology, Athens, Georgia, United States
S. Asgari
University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences, Saint Lucia, Australia
P. Atkinson
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States
X. Belles
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
G. Blomquist
University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States
K. Dong
Michigan State University Neuroscience Program, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
P.D. Evans
Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J. Ewer
Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
R. Feyereisen
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
A.M. Handler
USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station
V.C. Henrich
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Y. Huang
Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China
D. Hultmark
Umea University, Umeå, Sweden
K. Iatrou
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
M. Jacobs-Lorena
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
H. Jiang
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
M.R. Kanost
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
L.L. Koekemoer
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
H. Merzendorfer
University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
K. Michel
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
C. Mirth
Monash University School of Biological Sciences, Clayton, Australia
L. Moreira
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Rene Rachou Institute, BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil
S. Muthukrishnan
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
R. Newcomb
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
F. G. Noriega
Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States
S.R. Palli
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Y. Park
Kansas State University Department of Entomology, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
P. V. Pietrantonio
Texas A&M University Department of Entomology, College Station, Texas, United States
A.S. Raikhel
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States
J. Ribeiro
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States
L. Riddiford
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, United States
S. Sezutsu
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
T. Shimada
Gakushuin University Faculty of Science Department of Life Science Graduate School of Science Graduate Course in Life Science, Toshima City, Japan
T. Shinoda
National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation Agricultural Research Center Division of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Tsukuba, Japan
M. Soberón
Biotechnology Institute, Morelos, Mexico
J. Soulages
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
W.R. Terra
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Y. Tomoyasu
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States
J. Vontas
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
J.H. Willis
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
M. F. Wolfner
Cornell University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ithaca, New York, United States
Y. D Wu
Nanjing Agricultural University Department of Entomology, Nanjing, China
N. Yamanaka
University of California Riverside Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Riverside, California, United States