Andres N. Arce

TL;DR: 50 research questions of fundamental importance to the science or application of microbial ecology are identified, with the intention of summarising the field and bringing focus to new research avenues.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of conserving pollinator diversity to maintain a suite of functional traits and provide a diverse set of pollinator services is discussed, and the authors explore how to better understand and mitigate the factors that threaten insect pollinator richness, placing their discussion within the context of populations in predominantly agricultural landscapes in addition to urban environments.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that anal secretions applied to carrion is a form of parental care and the mechanistic repertoire of defences used by parent insects to protect dependent offspring from microbial threats is expanded.

TL;DR: The findings, that bees show subtle changes in foraging behaviour and reductions in colony size after exposure to a common pesticide, have important implications and help to inform the debate over whether the benefits of systemic pesticide application to flowering crops outweigh the costs.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates how RNA‐Seq transcriptome profiling can provide detailed novel insight on the mechanisms mediating pesticide toxicity to a key insect pollinator.