Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection

N Barghi, J Hermisson, C Schlötterer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Most adaption processes have a polygenic genetic basis, but even with the recent explosive
growth of genomic data we are still lacking a unified framework describing the dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the molecular mechanisms of acaricide resistance in mites and ticks

S De Rouck, E İnak, W Dermauw… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Functional and structural diversity of insect glutathione S-transferases in xenobiotic adaptation

SK BK, T Moural, F Zhu - International journal of biological sciences, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As a superfamily of multifunctional enzymes that is mainly associated with xenobiotic
adaptation, glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) facilitate insects' survival under chemical …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in aphid crop pests

C Bass, R Nauen - Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Aphids are a group of hemipteran insects that include some of the world's most economically
important agricultural pests. The control of pest aphids has relied heavily on the use of …

Management of insecticide resistance in the major Aedes vectors of arboviruses: Advances and challenges

I Dusfour, J Vontas, JP David, D Weetman… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background The landscape of mosquito-borne disease risk has changed dramatically in
recent decades, due to the emergence and reemergence of urban transmission cycles …

The buzz on insecticides: a review of uses, molecular structures, targets, adverse effects, and alternatives

MF Araújo, EMS Castanheira, SF Sousa - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Insecticides play a critical role in controlling the spread of insect-borne diseases and
preserving crop health. These chemical substances are specifically formulated to kill or …

COVID-19, an opportunity to reevaluate the correlation between long-term effects of anthropogenic pollutants on viral epidemic/pandemic events and prevalence

A Tsatsakis, D Petrakis, TK Nikolouzakis… - Food and Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Occupational, residential, dietary and environmental exposures to mixtures of synthetic
anthropogenic chemicals after World War II have a strong relationship with the increase of …

The molecular evolution of xenobiotic metabolism and resistance in chelicerate mites

T Van Leeuwen, W Dermauw - Annual review of entomology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Chelicerate mites diverged from other arthropod lineages more than 400 million years ago
and subsequently developed specific and remarkable xenobiotic adaptations. The study of …

Genome resequencing reveals rapid, repeated evolution in the Colorado potato beetle

B Pélissié, YH Chen, ZP Cohen… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Insecticide resistance and rapid pest evolution threatens food security and the development
of sustainable agricultural practices, yet the evolutionary mechanisms that allow pests to …

The secret lives of Drosophila flies

TA Markow - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Flies of the genus Drosophila, and particularly those of the species Drosophila
melanogaster, are best known as laboratory organisms. As with all model organisms, they …