Early‐life food stress hits females harder than males in insects: A meta‐analysis of sex differences in environmental sensitivity

T Teder, A Kaasik - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fitness consequences of early‐life environmental conditions are often sex‐specific, but
corresponding evidence for invertebrates remains inconclusive. Here, we use meta‐analysis …

Identifying candidate host plants for trap crop** against Drosophila suzukii in vineyards

AL Fragnière, S Bacher, P Kehrli - Journal of Pest Science, 2024 - Springer
The spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera:
Drosophilidae), is a serious pest in vineyards where it is difficult to control. Trap crop** …

Ample glycosylation in membrane and cell envelope proteins may explain the phenotypic diversity and virulence in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

AG Birhanu, SA Yimer, S Kalayou, T Riaz, ED Zegeye… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple regulatory mechanisms including post-translational modifications (PTMs) confer
complexity to the simpler genomes and proteomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …

Egg-laying decisions based on olfactory cues enhance offspring fitness in Stomoxys calcitrans L. (Diptera: Muscidae)

SBS Baleba, B Torto, D Masiga, CW Weldon… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Selection of oviposition substrate is critical in holometabolous insects. Female stable flies,
Stomoxys calcitrans, locate and select vertebrate herbivore dung in which they lay their …

Contrasting effects of heat pulses on different trophic levels, an experiment with a herbivore-parasitoid model system

SJJ Schreven, E Frago, A Stens, PW De Jong… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Under predicted global climate change, species will be gradually exposed to warmer
temperatures, and to a more variable climate including more intense and more frequent …

Effects of anthropogenic stress on hosts and their microbiomes: Treated wastewater alters performance and gut microbiome of a key detritivore (Asellus aquaticus)

E Lafuente, L Carles, JC Walser, M Giulio… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human activity is a major driver of ecological and evolutionary change in wild populations
and can have diverse effects on eukaryotic organisms as well as on environmental and host …

Modeling weather-driven long-distance dispersal of spruce budworm moths (Choristoneura fumiferana). Part 1: Model description

M Garcia, BR Sturtevant, R Saint-Amant… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-term studies of insect populations in the North American boreal forest have shown the
vital importance of long-distance dispersal to the maintenance and expansion of insect …

Transgenerational effects of nutrition are different for sons and daughters

ZV Zizzari, NM van Straalen… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Food shortage is an important selective factor sha** animal life‐history trajectories. Yet,
despite its role, many aspects of the interaction between parental and offspring food …

Maternal and paternal nutrition in a mosquito influences offspring life histories but not infection with an arbovirus

KE Zirbel, BW Alto - Ecosphere, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The nutritional ecology of an organism can influence the phenotypes of its offspring,
generating maternal effects (when derived from mothers) and paternal effects (when derived …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and expression analysis of multiple small heat shock protein genes in spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (L.)

G Quan, J Duan, T Ladd, PJ Krell - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2018 - Elsevier
Fifteen small heat shock protein (sHSP) genes were identified from spruce budworm,
Choristoneura fumiferana (L.), an important native forest pest in North America. The …