Insect-induced effects on plants and possible effectors used by galling and leaf-mining insects to manipulate their host-plant

D Giron, E Huguet, GN Stone, M Body - Journal of Insect Physiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Gall-inducing insects are iconic examples in the manipulation and reprogramming of plant
development, inducing spectacular morphological and physiological changes of host-plant …

The evolution of endophagy in herbivorous insects

JF Tooker, D Giron - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Herbivorous feeding inside plant tissues, or endophagy, is a common lifestyle across
Insecta, and occurs in insect taxa that bore, roll, tie, mine, gall, or otherwise modify plant …

Evaluating DNA barcoding for species identification and discovery in European gracillariid moths

C Lopez-Vaamonde, N Kirichenko, A Cama… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Gracillariidae is the most species-rich leaf-mining moth family with over 2,000 described
species worldwide. In Europe, there are 263 valid named species recognized, many of …

Symbiotic bacteria of the gall-inducing mite Fragariocoptes setiger (Eriophyoidea) and phylogenomic resolution of the eriophyoid position among Acari

PB Klimov, PE Chetverikov, IE Dodueva… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Eriophyoid mites represent a hyperdiverse, phytophagous lineage with an unclear
phylogenetic position. These mites have succeeded in colonizing nearly every seed plant …

Promises and challenges in insect–plant interactions

D Giron, G Dubreuil, A Bennett… - Entomologia …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is tremendous diversity of interactions between plants and other species. These
relationships range from antagonism to mutualism. Interactions of plants with members of …

A molecular phylogeny and revised higher‐level classification for the leaf‐mining moth family G racillariidae and its implications for larval host‐use evolution

AY Kawahara, D Plotkin, I Ohshima… - Systematic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gracillariidae are one of the most diverse families of internally feeding insects, and many
species are economically important. Study of this family has been hampered by lack of a …

Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies

A Sucháčková Bartoňová, M Konvička, J Marešová… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The bacterium Wolbachia infects many insect species and spreads by diverse vertical and
horizontal means. As co-inherited organisms, these bacteria often cause problems in …

Instar- and host-associated differentiation of bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

A Malacrinò, O Campolo, RF Medina, V Palmeri - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Microorganisms are acknowledged for their role in sha** insects' evolution, life history and
ecology. Previous studies have shown that microbial communities harbored within insects …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanism of plant gall induction by insects: revealing clues, facts, and consequences in a cross-kingdom complex interaction

O Gätjens-Boniche - Revista de Biología Tropical, 2019 - scielo.sa.cr
Galls are defined as modifications of the normal developmental design of plants, produced
by a specific reaction to the presence and activity of a foreign organism. Although different …

Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf‐mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data

X Li, R St Laurent, C Earl, C Doorenweerd… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gracillariidae is the most taxonomically diverse cosmopolitan leaf‐mining moth family,
consisting of nearly 2000 named species in 105 described genera, classified into eight …