Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae): A Decade of Research Towards a Sustainable Integrated Pest Management Program

G Tait, S Mermer, D Stockton, J Lee… - Journal of Economic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura)(Diptera: Drosophilidae) also known as spotted-
wing drosophila (SWD), is a pest native to Southeast Asia. In the last few decades, the pest …

Diversity and functional roles of the gut microbiota in Lepidopteran insects

X Zhang, F Zhang, X Lu - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lepidopteran insects are one of the most widespread and speciose lineages on Earth, with
many common pests and beneficial insect species. The evolutionary success of their …

Biological control of spotted-wing drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae)—current and pending tactics

JC Lee, X Wang, KM Daane, KA Hoelmer… - Journal of Integrated …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura)(Diptera: Drosophilidae) is
originally from Asia, and in the last decade it has become a global economic pest of small …

Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences

E Sanaei, S Charlat, J Engelstädter - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is one of the most abundant endosymbionts on earth, with a wide distribution
especially in arthropods. Effective maternal transmission and the induction of various …

Two-By-One model of cytoplasmic incompatibility: Synthetic recapitulation by transgenic expression of cifA and cifB in Drosophila

JD Shropshire, SR Bordenstein - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that infect arthropod species worldwide and are
deployed in vector control to curb arboviral spread using cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI …

Antibiotics increased host insecticide susceptibility via collapsed bacterial symbionts reducing detoxification metabolism in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens

T Tang, Y Zhang, T Cai, X Deng, C Liu, J Li, S He… - Journal of Pest …, 2021 - Springer
Symbionts participate in various physiological activities of their insect hosts, including
detoxification metabolism. Emerging evidence has revealed that the bacterial symbiont …

The insect pest control laboratory of the joint FAO/IAEA programme: Ten years (2010–2020) of research and development, achievements and challenges in support of …

MJB Vreysen, AMM Abd-Alla, K Bourtzis, J Bouyer… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Insect Pest Control (IPC) Section and its associated laboratory (IPCL)
is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Its …

Microbiome innovation in agriculture: development of microbial based tools for insect pest management

M Qadri, S Short, K Gast, J Hernandez… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review emphasizes the potential and use of microbes in sustainable insect pest
management. We first review the diverse insect traits shaped by insect-microbe associations …

Sublethal effects of nine insecticides on Drosophila suzukii and its major pupal parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae

F Lisi, R Mansour, C Cavallaro, T Alınç… - Pest Management …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Although the pupal parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae is used in conservative
and augmentative biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii infestations, current pest management …

Temperature effects on cellular host-microbe interactions explain continent-wide endosymbiont prevalence

MTJ Hague, JD Shropshire, CN Caldwell, JP Statz… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Endosymbioses influence host physiology, reproduction, and fitness, but these relationships
require efficient microbe transmission between host generations to persist. Maternally …