A determining factor for insect feeding preference in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2019 Feeding preference is critical for insect adaptation and survival. However, little is known regarding the determination of insect feeding preference, and the genetic basis is poorly understood. As a model lepidopteran insect with economic importance, the
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Feeding Preference Differentiation in Sympatric Willow Leaf Beetles Driven by Host Leaf Trait Divergence [PDF]
AnimalsInsect herbivores often exhibit host preference and feeding differentiation underpinning fine-scale niche partitioning, yet their linkage to larval performance remains poorly understood.
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Agronomy, 2023 Soil food webs are extremely complex as they contain diverse organisms. Feeding preference, also known as prey selection, is an important determinant of soil community compositions.
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Damage Potential and Feeding Preference of Halyomorpha halys (Stål), Nezara viridula (L.), and Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas) Among Different Ripening Stages of Tomato [PDF]
InsectsTomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most preferred hosts of polyphagous stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and leaf-footed bugs (Hemiptera: Coreidae). These hemipterans can infest tomato fruits at all stages of fruit ripening. However, it is
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Analysis of Genes Associated with Feeding Preference and Detoxification in Various Developmental Stages of Aglais urticae [PDF]
InsectsHerbivorous insects and host plants have developed a close and complex relationship over a long period of co-evolution. Some plants provide nutrients for insects, but plants’ secondary metabolites also influence their growth and development.
Ouyan Xi, Wentao Guo, Hongying Hu
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No Preference for Performance: Host Plant Preference, Offspring Performance and Host Plant Distribution in the Butterfly Aricia artaxerxes [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe connection between female host plant preference and offspring performance is important for understanding how relationships between plants and phytophagous insects have evolved. According to the preference‐performance hypothesis, female insects should
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A Maize Germplasm Is Resistant to Fall Armyworm: From Life Table Analysis to Greenhouse Assays [PDF]
InsectsThe fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a devastating pest of maize, and host plant resistance offers a sustainable alternative to chemical control.
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“It gave me a sense of control in a treatment where I felt I had none”: the use of social stories and preferences to reduce the use of restraint during nasogastric tube feeding in young people with anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryObjectiveNasogastric tube (NGT) feeding can be used in inpatient care, and in certain incidences is necessary under physical restraint. While at times essential, it is highly distressing and a high proportion of young people who receive NGT feeding under
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Blood feeding preferences of laboratory-reared aedes albopictus for human blood groups and its effect on their fertility [PDF]
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023 Female mosquitoes require both sugar and blood for feeding. They show distinct host preferences depending on behavioral, ecological, and physiological factors.
Fatma BURSALI, Fatih Mehmet ŞİMŞEK
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Experience-based mediation of feeding and oviposition behaviors in the cotton bollworm: Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Experience is well known to affect sensory-guided behaviors in many herbivorous insects. Here, we investigated the effects of natural feeding experiences of Helicoverpa armigera larvae on subsequent preferences of larval approaching and feeding, as well ...
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