Throughout the past century, the global spread of Bactrocera pests has continued to pose a
significant threat to the commercial fruit and vegetable industry, resulting in substantial costs …

Simple Summary Tephritid fruit flies are highly invasive, globally important insect pests of
horticulture. Significant effort goes into assessing and managing the risks posed by fruit flies …

As genomic data proliferates, the prevalence of post-speciation gene flow is making species
boundaries and relationships increasingly ambiguous. Although current approaches …

Abstract The Oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), a global pest that can decimate
regional fruit industries and elicit international quarantines, has been the subject of …

Highlights•Genomic data are revealing extensive evidence of hybridization across many
insect groups.•Hybridization and gene flow between species are much more common than …

An increasing number of invasive fruit fly pests are colonizing new grounds. With this study,
we aimed to uncover the invasion pathways of the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis into …

Here we describe a molecular approach to assess conspecific identity that relies on the
comparison of an evolved mutated transposable element sequence and its genomic …

Species that are dispersed across oceanic islands can have strong population structure due
to genetic isolation, which makes it difficult to determine realistic and meaningful species …

Distance decay principles predict that species with larger geographic ranges would have
greater intraspecific genetic diversity than more restricted species. However, invasive pest …

We engaged in six years of snap-shot surveys for fruit flies in rural environments and ten
protected forest areas of Bangladesh, using traps baited with male lures (cue-lure, methyl …