Review of insect pathogen risks for the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) and guidelines for reliable production

L Joosten, A Lecocq, AB Jensen… - Entomologia …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Black soldier fly [BSF; Hermetia illucens L.(Diptera: Stratiomyidae)] larvae are very effective
in transforming low‐grade food waste into valuable high‐end proteins and fat, in intensive …

The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century

C Elya, HH De Fine Licht - IMA fungus, 2021‏ - Springer
The fungal genus Entomophthora consists of highly host-specific pathogens that cause
deadly epizootics in their various insect hosts. The most well-known among these is the …

Fungal genomes and insights into the evolution of the kingdom

JE Stajich - Microbiology spectrum, 2017‏ - journals.asm.org
The kingdom Fungi comprises species that inhabit nearly all ecosystems. Fungi exist as both
free-living and symbiotic unicellular and multicellular organisms with diverse morphologies …

Robust manipulation of the behavior of Drosophila melanogaster by a fungal pathogen in the laboratory

C Elya, TC Lok, QE Spencer, H McCausland… - elife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Many microbes induce striking behavioral changes in their animal hosts, but how they
achieve this is poorly understood, especially at the molecular level. Mechanistic …

Mechanisms behind the madness: how do zombie-making fungal entomopathogens affect host behavior to increase transmission?

C de Bekker, WC Beckerson, C Elya - MBio, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
Transmission is a crucial step in all pathogen life cycles. As such, certain species have
evolved complex traits that increase their chances to find and invade new hosts. Fungal …

Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi

JE Stajich, B Lovett, E Lee, AM Macias, AE Hajek… - Elife, 2024‏ - elifesciences.org
Despite over a century of observations, the obligate insect parasites within the order
Entomophthorales remain poorly characterized at the genetic level. In this manuscript, we …

Psychoactive plant-and mushroom-associated alkaloids from two behavior modifying cicada pathogens

GR Boyce, E Gluck-Thaler, JC Slot, JE Stajich… - Fungal Ecology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Entomopathogenic fungi routinely kill their hosts before releasing infectious spores, but a
few species keep insects alive while sporulating, which enhances dispersal. Transcriptomics …

A light-sensing system in the common ancestor of the fungi

LJ Galindo, DS Milner, SL Gomes, TA Richards - Current Biology, 2022‏ - cell.com
Diverse light-sensing organs (ie, eyes) have evolved across animals. Interestingly, several
subcellular analogs have been found in eukaryotic microbes. 1 All of these systems have a …

Fungal diversity from communities to genes

S Branco - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Fungi are hyperdiverse organisms and assemble in complex communities, characterized by
high levels of species richness, turnover, and endemism. However, the origins and …

Infection of Drosophila suzukii with the obligate insect-pathogenic fungus Entomophthora muscae

PG Becher, RE Jensen, ME Natsopoulou… - Journal of pest …, 2018‏ - Springer
Physiological constraints restrict specialist pathogens from infecting new hosts. From an
applied perspective, a narrow host range makes specialist pathogens interesting for …