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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 631-646, December 2023., 2023 Problems caused by arthropod pests to livestock production are increasing due to new legal restrictions on pesticide use, insurgence of resistance to insecticides in pest populations and climate change. RNA interference (RNAi) is a novel approach to pest control based on specific gene silencing in target species, characterised by a selective action ...
Valeria Bonina, Salvatore Arpaia
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Capsazepine affects thermal preferences of the American cockroach (Blattodea: Blattidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2016 Capsazepine is a competitive antagonist of capsaicin, a TRPV1 agonist responsible for the spicy taste of pepper. TRPV1 agonists and antagonists are known to affect mammalian body temperature, but their action on thermoregulation in insects is poorly ...
Justyna MALISZEWSKA, Eugenia TĘGOWSKA
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New Insights into Cockroach Control: Using Functional Diversity of Blattella germanica Symbionts
Insects, 2020 Insects have close symbiotic relationships with several microbes, which extends the limited metabolic networks of most insects. Using symbiotic microorganisms for the biological control of pests and insect-borne diseases has become a promising direction.
Xiaoyuan Pan, Xuejun Wang, Fan Zhang
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Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 531, Issue 14, Page 1482-1508, October 2023., 2023 The central complex is an insect brain area controlling goal‐directed orientation. Comparative analysis of insect species ranging from firebrats to flies reveals two bilateral pairs of serotonin‐immunoreactive neurons innervating the central complex in all neopteran species and two additional pairs of neurons in flies and butterflies.
Uwe Homberg +6 more
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American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Blattaria: Blattidae)
EDIS, 2003 The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus), is the largest of the common peridomestic cockroaches measuring on average 4 cm in length. It occurs in buildings throughout Florida especially in commercial buildings.
K. A. Barbara
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Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 942-981, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Acoustic and substrate‐borne vibrations are among the most widely used signalling modalities in animals. Arthropods display a staggering diversity of vibroacoustic organs generating acoustic sound and/or substrate‐borne vibrations, and are fundamental to our broader understanding of the evolution of animal signalling.
Leonidas‐Romanos Davranoglou +2 more
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Optimizing insect metabarcoding using replicated mock communities
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 1130-1146, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Metabarcoding (high‐throughput sequencing of marker gene amplicons) has emerged as a promising and cost‐effective method for characterizing insect community samples. Yet, the methodology varies greatly among studies and its performance has not been systematically evaluated to date.
Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz‐Eggebrecht +10 more
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Diversity of adipokinetic hormones in termites (Isoptera)
European Journal of Entomology, 2016 In this study we report on the structural diversity of adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) in the evolutionarily oldest group of social insects, the termites (Isoptera).
Veronika JEDLIČKOVÁ +2 more
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Subterranean Biology, 2016 Cockroaches collected during a protracted series of fieldwork in several limestone caves in Polillo Island, Philippines were taxonomically studied. A new species of Nocticola (Nocticolidae), N. gonzalezi Lucañas & Lit, sp. n., is described.
Cristian C. Lucanas, Ireneo L. Lit Jr.
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An Inventory of Stored Grain Insects in Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The problems with insects in commercial and farm-stored corn, small grains, dry beans, and soybeans are reduced to a minimum by Michigan\u27s cool climate and usually short period of storage (Ruppel, 1976).
Ruppel, Robert F
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