Molecular mechanisms of winter survival

NM Teets, KE Marshall… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Winter provides many challenges for insects, including direct injury to tissues and energy
drain due to low food availability. As a result, the geographic distribution of many species is …

Mosquito diapause

DL Denlinger, PA Armbruster - Annual review of entomology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Diapause, a dominant feature in the life history of many mosquito species, offers a
mechanism for bridging unfavorable seasons in both temperate and tropical environments …

A model species for agricultural pest genomics: the genome of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

SD Schoville, YH Chen, MN Andersson, JB Benoit… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The Colorado potato beetle is one of the most challenging agricultural pests to manage. It
has shown a spectacular ability to adapt to a variety of solanaceaeous plants and variable …

Diapause and quiescence: dormancy mechanisms that contribute to the geographical expansion of mosquitoes and their evolutionary success

DFA Diniz, CMR de Albuquerque, LO Oliva… - Parasites & vectors, 2017 - Springer
Mosquitoes are insects belonging to the order Diptera and family Culicidae. They are
distributed worldwide and include approximately 3500 species, of which about 300 have …

A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy

K Wilsterman, MA Ballinger, CM Williams - Functional Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Various animals across the tree of life express some form of programmed dormancy (eg
hibernation, diapause) to maximize fitness in highly seasonal environments. The integrated …

Insulin signaling and the regulation of insect diapause

C Sim, DL Denlinger - Frontiers in physiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
A rich chapter in the history of insect endocrinology has focused on hormonal control of
diapause, especially the major roles played by juvenile hormones (JHs), ecdysteroids, and …

Diapause research in insects: historical review and recent work perspectives

K Tougeron - Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
All organisms on Earth have evolved biological rhythms to face alternation of periods of
favorable and unfavorable environmental conditions, at various temporal scales. Diapause …

Mechanisms of animal diapause: recent developments from nematodes, crustaceans, insects, and fish

SC Hand, DL Denlinger… - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Life cycle delays are beneficial for opportunistic species encountering suboptimal
environments. Many animals display a programmed arrest of development (diapause) at …

Conceptual framework of the eco-physiological phases of insect diapause development justified by transcriptomic profiling

V Koštál, T Štětina, R Poupardin, J Korbelová… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Insects often overcome unfavorable seasons in a hormonally regulated state of diapause
during which their activity ceases, development is arrested, metabolic rate is suppressed …

The metabolism and role of free fatty acids in key physiological processes in insects of medical, veterinary and forensic importance

A Kaczmarek, M Boguś - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Insects are the most widespread group of organisms and more than one million species
have been described. These animals have significant ecological functions, for example they …