A5014755451- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Plant and animal studies
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2018-2023
Abstract The adaptation of herbivorous insects to new host plants is key their evolutionary success in diverse environments. Many are associated with mutualistic gut bacteria that contribute the host's nutrition and can thereby facilitate dietary switching polyphagous insects. However, how microbial communities differ between populations same species feed on different remains poorly understood. Most Pyrrhocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) specialist seed‐feeders family Malvaceae, although one...
Symbioses with microbes play a pivotal role in the evolutionary success of insects, and can lead to intimate host-symbiont associations. However, how host maintains stable symbiosis its beneficial partners while keeping antagonistic check remains incompletely understood. Here, we uncover mechanism by which protects symbiont from host's own broad-range antimicrobial defense during transmission. Beewolves, group solitary digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), provide their brood cells...
Hydrocarbons (HCs) fulfil indispensable functions in insects, protecting against desiccation and serving chemical communication. However, the link between composition function, selection pressures shaping HC profiles remain poorly understood. Beewolf digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) use an antennal gland secretion rich linear unsaturated HCs to form a hydrophobic barrier around their defensive bacterial symbiont, it from brood cell fumigation by toxic egg-produced nitric oxide (NO)....