Health depends on the diet and a vegetal diet promotes health by providing fibres, vitamins
and diverse metabolites. Remarkably, plants may also provide microbes. Fungi and bacteria …

Highlights•Crop domestication generates ecologically novel phenotypes.•Traits that are
important for higher insect trophic levels are under selection during domestication.•As …

Genetic differentiation can be promoted allopatrically by geographic isolation of populations
due to limited dispersal ability and diversification over time or sympatrically through, for …

An unprecedented global transfer of agricultural resources followed the discovery of the
New World; one consequence of this process was that staple food plants of Neotropical …

Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say)(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) which is
Neotropical in origin, is a well known pest of Phaseolus vulgaris L., P. lunatus L. and other …

Abstract Aim The seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus is an important tropical and
subtropical pest of legumes distributed world‐wide. Archaeological evidence suggests an …

Phylogeography is an integrative discipline that aims to understand the geographic
ordination of genotypes. In recent decades, phylogeographic approaches have been used …

The bean weevil, Acanthoscelides obtectus, is one of the most destructive insect pests of
stored pulses globally. Cold treatment is a method used for controlling many insect species …

The current study investigated the influence of temperature on the biological and
reproductive aspects of the bean bruchid beetle, Acanthoscelides obtectus (Coleoptera …

Ethanol extracts of Rosmarinus officinalis, Lavandula angus-tifolia and Ruta graveolens
were tested against adults of Acanthoscelides obtectus and Leptinotarsa decemlineata …