Plant protease inhibitors (PIs) are natural plant defense proteins that inhibit proteases of
invading insect herbivores. However, their anti-insect efficacy is determined not only by their …

Highlights•Aphids cause major plant damage by ingesting sap and vectoring viral
diseases.•Aphid pests can quickly respond to intense selective pressures exerted by …

Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant
interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme …

Background The prevailing paradigm of host-parasite evolution is that arms races lead to
increasing specialisation via genetic adaptation. Insect herbivores are no exception and the …

Background Recent genomic analyses of arthropod defense mechanisms suggest
conservation of key elements underlying responses to pathogens, parasites and stresses. At …

Recent studies have reported that aphids facilitate their colonization of host plants by
secreting salivary proteins into host tissues during their initial probing and feeding. Some of …

Herbivorous insects represent the most species-rich lineages of metazoans. The high rate of
diversification in herbivorous insects is thought to result from their specialization to distinct …

One of the unique insights provided by the growing number of fully sequenced genomes is
the pervasiveness of gene duplication and gene loss. Indeed, several metrics now suggest …

The rapid advances in available transcriptomic and genomic data and our understanding of
the physiology and biochemistry of whitefly–plant interactions have allowed us to gain new …

RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as an efficient technology for pest control by
silencing the essential genes of targeted insects. Owing to its nucleotide sequence‐guided …