The mitochondrial genome of Aenasius arizonensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with novel gene order
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Aenasius arizonensis is the endoparasitoid of mealybug (Phenacoccus solenopsis) and plays an important role in biological control. We sequenced the A. arizonensis mitochondrial genome using next-generation sequencing.
Yue Ma +4 more
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Morphological re-description and molecular identification of Tabanidae (Diptera) in East Africa
ZooKeys, 2018 Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory.
Claire M. Mugasa +5 more
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Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In precision agriculture, the detection and recognition of insects play an essential role in the ability of crops to grow healthy and produce a high-quality yield. The current machine vision model requires a large volume of data to achieve high performance. However, there are approximately 5.5 million different insect species in the world.
arxiv
Adaptive Representations of Sound for Automatic Insect Recognition [PDF]
, 2023 Insect population numbers and biodiversity have been rapidly declining with time, and monitoring these trends has become increasingly important for conservation measures to be effectively implemented. But monitoring methods are often invasive, time and resource intense, and prone to various biases. Many insect species produce characteristic sounds that
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A new gene family (BAPs) of Cotesia bracovirus induces apoptosis of host hemocytes
Virulence, 2023 Polydnaviruses (PDVs), obligatory symbionts with parasitoid wasps, function as host immune suppressors and growth and development regulator. PDVs can induce host haemocyte apoptosis, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we provided
Ze-Hua Wang +5 more
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Resilient conductive membrane synthesized by in-situ polymerisation for wearable non-invasive electronics on moving appendages of cyborg insect [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 By leveraging their high mobility and small size, insects have been combined with microcontrollers to build up cyborg insects for various practical applications. Unfortunately, all current cyborg insects rely on implanted electrodes to control their movement, which causes irreversible damage to their organs and muscles.
arxiv
Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
Science, 2018 Warming, crops, and insect pests Crop responses to climate warming suggest that yields will decrease as growing-season temperatures increase. Deutsch et al.
C. Deutsch +6 more
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Collecting \u3ci\u3eNeocurtilla Hexadactyla\u3c/i\u3e, the Northern Mole Cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), in Iowa [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The northern mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty), is a common insect that is infrequently collected perhaps owing to its burrowing and nocturnal habits.
DeWitt, J. R
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Malaria Journal, 2017 After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that a funding acknowledgement has been omitted from the original article. The authors would like to include the following, “The study was undertaken as part of the Target Malaria
Edwin Ogola +7 more
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Phytoprotection Transgenic Plants for Insect Resistance
, 2020 Less than ten years after the publica tion of the first reports describing the régénération of insect-resistant plants, such transgenic plants expressing 8-en-dotoxins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis were commercially released.
M. Giband
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