Increasing ecological heterogeneity can constrain biopesticide resistance evolution

R Mangan, LF Bussière, RA Polanczyk… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023‏ - cell.com
Microbial biopesticides containing living parasites are valuable emerging crop protection
technologies against insect pests, but they are vulnerable to resistance evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Baculovirus Genetic Diversity and Population Structure

M López-Ferber, P Caballero, T Williams - Viruses, 2025‏ - mdpi.com
Baculoviruses can naturally regulate lepidopteran populations and are used as biological
insecticides. The genetic diversity of these viruses affects their survival and efficacy in pest …

Map** and CRISPR homology-directed repair of a recessive white eye mutation in Plodia moths

C Heryanto, JJ Hanly, A Mazo-Vargas, A Tendolkar… - Iscience, 2022‏ - cell.com
The pantry moth Plodia interpunctella is a worldwide pest of stored food products and a
promising laboratory model system for lepidopteran functional genomics. Here we describe …

Efficient hyperactive piggyBac transgenesis in Plodia pantry moths

C Heryanto, A Mazo-Vargas, A Martin - Frontiers in genome editing, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
While piggyBac transposon-based transgenesis is widely used in various emerging model
organisms, its relatively low transposition rate in butterflies and moths has hindered its use …

Ultrabithorax is a micromanager of hindwing identity in butterflies and moths

A Tendolkar, AF Pomerantz, C Heryanto… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The forewings and hindwings of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are differentiated from
each other, with segment-specific morphologies and color patterns that mediate a wide …

Deconstructing taxa x taxa x environment interactions in the microbiota: A theoretical examination

S Yitbarek, J Guittar, SA Knutie, CB Ogbunugafor - Iscience, 2023‏ - cell.com
A major objective of microbial ecology is to identify how the composition of microbial taxa
shapes host phenotypes. However, most studies focus on pairwise interactions and ignore …

Larval and Pupal Silk Variation in the Indian Meal Moth (Plodia interpunctella): the Impact of Overcrowding and Temperature

TV Barve, RK Godfrey, CG Storer… - The Journal of the …, 2023‏ - BioOne
The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) is becoming an important biological model to
study silk. While there are many potential applications to materials science and medicine …

Development of Molecular Tools for Lepidopteran Functional Genomics in the Plodia Pantry Moth

C Heryanto - 2024‏ - search.proquest.com
Having been solely considered as a worldwide pest of stored food products, the pantry moth
Plodia interpunctella is gaining traction as a promising laboratory model system for the study …

Consequences and trade-offs of variation in growth rate in juvenile animals

S Mogensen - 2023‏ - prism.ucalgary.ca
Growth is a crucial life history trait in juvenile organisms that can influence survival and adult
reproductive capacity. In this thesis, I investigate how variation in growth and its trade-offs …

[PDF][PDF] Baculovirus Genetic Diversity and Population Structure. Viruses 2025, 17, 142. h ps

M López-Ferber, P Caballero, T Williams - doi. org/10.3390/v17020142‏ - researchgate.net
Baculoviruses can naturally regulate lepidopteran populations and are used as biological
insecticides. The genetic diversity of these viruses affects their survival and efficacy in pest …