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 …
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 is one of the most abundant endosymbionts on earth, with a wide distribution especially in arthropods. Effective maternal transmission and the induction of various …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Endosymbioses influence host physiology, reproduction, and fitness, but these relationships require efficient microbe transmission between host generations to persist. Maternally …