Abstract The Arachnida subclass of Acari comprises many harmful pests that threaten
agriculture as well as animal health, including herbivorous spider mites, the bee parasite …

Resistance to insecticides and herbicides has cost billions of US dollars in the agricultural
sector and could result in millions of lives lost to insect-vectored diseases. We mostly …

Arthropods have well adapted to the vast array of chemicals they encounter in their
environment. Whether these xenobiotics are plant allelochemicals or anthropogenic …

Highlights•GSTs confer resistance by metabolizing or sequestering insecticides or by
protecting against oxidative stress caused by insecticides.•The role of BdGSTe2, BdGSTe4 …

Abstract The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera:
Gelechiidae), is an invasive pest difficult to control. Insecticide application is quite common …

The role, magnitude, and molecular nature of trans-driven expression variation underlying
the upregulation of detoxification genes in pesticide resistant arthropod populations has …

The molecular mechanisms of coevolution between plants and insects remain elusive.
GABA receptors are targets of many neurotoxic terpenoids, which represent the most diverse …

Pesticide resistance development is an example of rapid contemporary evolution that poses
immense challenges for agriculture. It typically evolves due to the strong directional …

Chelicerate mites diverged from other arthropod lineages more than 400 million years ago
and subsequently developed specific and remarkable xenobiotic adaptations. The study of …

Insecticide resistance and rapid pest evolution threatens food security and the development
of sustainable agricultural practices, yet the evolutionary mechanisms that allow pests to …