A5062935848- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Free Radicals and Antioxidants
- Moringa oleifera research and applications
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Bielefeld University
2020-2025
Abstract Assortative mating can play a major role in the divergence of population with gene flow. In fire salamander near Bonn, Germany, larvae differ genetically according to habitat type they are found in, i.e. ponds or streams. Neither sound nor vision source for assortative salamanders, but it is known that females discriminate between sexes and types males based on chemical cues. The adults share same terrestrial which leads question whether there type-specific fingerprint already...
<title>Abstract</title> Through niche construction, organisms actively shape their environment, thereby influencing evolutionary trajectories via ecological inheritance. Red flour beetles (<italic>Tribolium castaneum</italic>) achieve construction through secretion of antimicrobial compounds from the stink glands. It has recently been demonstrated that experimental removal using RNAi a key gene needed to produce gland secretions altered pace and mechanisms resistance adaptation bacterial...
Abstract Brassicaceae plants contain glucosinolates, which are hydrolysed by myrosinases to toxic products such as isothiocyanates and nitriles, acting defences. Herbivores have evolved various detoxification strategies, reviewed here. Larvae of Phaedon cochleariae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) metabolise hydrolysis benzenic glucosinolates conjugation with aspartic acid. In this study, we investigated whether P. uses the same metabolic pathway for structurally different metabolism differs...
Abstract Pharmacophagy involves the sequestration of specialised plant metabolites for non-nutritive purposes and commonly occurs in insects. Here we investigate pharmacophagy turnip sawfly, Athalia rosae , where adults not only collect (clerodanoids) from a ( Ajuga reptans ), but also exterior conspecifics via fighting. Using behavioural assays, chemical analytics, RNAseq show that when individuals nibble on have already acquired clerodanoids A. leaves, this nibbling results transfer...
Herbivores face a broad range of defences when feeding on plants. By mixing diets, polyphagous herbivores are assumed to benefit during their development by gaining better nutritional balance and reducing the intake toxic compounds from individual plant species. Nevertheless, they also show strategies metabolically cope with defences. In this study, we investigated tansy leaf beetle, Galeruca tanaceti (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), mono diets consisting one species [cabbage ( Brassica rapa ),...
Gregarines are usually classified as parasites, but recent studies suggest that they should be viewed on a parasitism-mutualism spectrum and may even seen part of the gut microbiota host insects. As such, also impact consumption their hosts and/or involved in digestion or detoxification host’s diet. To study such effects gregarine species those traits its host, mustard leaf beetle ( Phaedon cochleariae ) was used. This feeds Brassicaceae plants contain glucosinolates, which form toxic...