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Positive Selection Drove the Adaptation of Mitochondrial Genes to the Demands of Flight and High-Altitude Environments in Grasshoppers

Frontiers in Genetics, 2018
The molecular evolution of mitochondrial genes responds to changes in energy requirements and to high altitude adaptation in animals, but this has not been fully explored in invertebrates.
Xiao-Dong Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Guo-Fang Jiang, Guo-Fang Jiang, Li-Yun Yan, Ran Li, Yuan Mu, Wei-An Deng   +7 more
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Grasshoppers as a food source? A review

Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2016
Description of the subject. Current trends suggest an increasing future demand for conventional meats, which indicates a strong need to shift this dependency to other alternative protein sources such as insects. Literature.
Paul, A., Frederich, M., Uyttenbroeck, R., Hatt, S., Malik, P., Lebecque, S., Hamaidia, M., Miazek, K., Goffin, D., Willems, L., Deleu, M., Fauconnier, ML., Richel, A., De Pauw, E., Blecker, C., Monty, A., Francis, F., Haubruge, E., Danthine, S.   +18 more
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Response of Grasshopper and Grasshopper Diversity to Different Grassland Types Under Enclosure Conditions

Ecology and Evolution
Enclosure is one of the important methods used to restore grassland ecosystems. Locusts and grasshoppers are important components of grassland ecosystems and can accurately reflect changes in their habitats.
Chuanen Li, Xingmin Song, Mengjia Wang, Roman Jashenko, Jun Lin, Zhujun Cao, Huixia Liu, Rong Ji   +7 more
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Grasshoppers and locusts as human foods – a comprehensive review

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2023
Nutritious and sustainable food sources are much needed to compensate for the rising demand for food due to the ever-growing human population. The idea of using insects as potential future foods is getting more attention globally.
S. Siddiqui, M. Ghisletta, B. Yunusa, F.J. Abdullahi, Y. Saraswati, I. Fernando, A. Nagdalian, A. Gvozdenko, Mohd Asif Shah, J. Lorenzo, B. N. Dar   +10 more
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Transposable element expansion and low-level piRNA silencing in grasshoppers may cause genome gigantism

BMC Biology, 2022
Background Transposable elements (TEs) have been likened to parasites in the genome that reproduce and move ceaselessly in the host, continuously enlarging the host genome.
Xuanzeng Liu, Muhammad Majid, Hao Yuan, Huihui Chang, Lina Zhao, Yimeng Nie, Lang-Fen He, Xiaojing Liu, Xiao-San He, Yuan Huang   +9 more
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Ground dwelling pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) in Southeast Asian tropical freshwater swamp forest prefer wet microhabitats [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2017
Tetrigidae are an ancient group of grasshoppers and, similar to many other insects, have associations and preferences for specific microhabitats and habitats.
Ming Kai Tan, Huiqing Yeo, Wei Song Hwang   +2 more
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Biodiversity changes in abandoned military training areas: relationships to different management approaches in multiple taxa

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Introduction: Abandoned military training areas are biodiversity strongholds, and this is particularly true for open-habitat and threatened species in Central Europe.
Jiří Reif, Jiří Reif, Petr Chajma, Lenka Dvořáková, Lenka Dvořáková, Jiří Koptík, Pavel Marhoul, Oldřich Čížek, Tomáš Kadlec   +8 more
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SUSCEPTIBILITY OF DESERT LOCUST, SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA (ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDIDAE) TO BACILLUS CEREUS ISOLATED FROM EGYPT [PDF]

Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018
Examination was done at preliminary bracketing bioassay on one old 4th nymphal instar of desert locust. Results showed that two isolates, namely NDL1 and NDL2 were having highly potentiality as entomopathogenic bioagents.
M. Reda, T. Mashtoly, M. El-Zemaity, A. Abolmaaty, G. Abdelatef, A. Marzouk   +5 more
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Control of Pest Grasshoppers in North America

Insects, 2020
Simple Summary Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) population outbreaks occur frequently and consume damaging amounts of livestock forage and crops on millions of hectares of the western USA.
Wahid H Dakhel, S. Jaronski, Scott Schell   +2 more
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A review of the fauna and bionomics of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of the Ciscaucasia [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2020
Eighty six species of grasshoppers belonging to 11 subfamilies and 3 families are recorded for the Ciscaucasia. Paracinema tricolor (Charpentier, 1825), Stenobothrus stigmaticus (Rambur, 1838) and Omocestus minutus (Brullé, 1832) are recorded for the ...
E.N. Terskov
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