Legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, has emerged as a major pest on food legumes in Asia
and Africa. It is an oligophagous pest, feeding on over 70 species in Fabaceae. We examine …

Sex pheromone communication, acting as a prezygotic barrier to mating, is believed to have
contributed to the speciation of moths and butterflies in the order Lepidoptera. Five decades …

Molecular Basis of Pheromone Detection in Insects Page 1 Molecular Basis of Pheromone
Detection in Insects Richard G. Vogt Department of Biological Sciences, University of South …

Publisher Summary Insects decode their olfactory environment using olfactory sensilla with
diverse odor-sensitive phenotypes. The three types of proteins involved in the biochemistry …

The adoption of agriculture in several parts of the world during the early Neolithic period led
to a fundamental change in human migration. By introducing newly domesticated crops into …

A daptation to different environments may be a powerful source of genetic differentiation
between populations. The biological traits selected in each environment can pleiotropically …

Speciation involves the origin of trait differences that limit or prevent gene exchange and
ultimately results in daughter populations that form monophyletic or exclusive genetic …

The phytophagous insects that damage crops are often polyphagous, feeding on several
types of crop and on weeds. The refuges constituted by noncrop host plants may be useful in …

The E and Z pheromone strains of the European corn borer (ECB) provide an exceptional
model system for examining the genetic basis of sexual isolation. Differences at two major …

Colias eurytheme butterflies display extensive allozyme polymorphism in the enzyme
phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI). Earlier studies on biochemical and fitness effects of these …