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Does This Look Infected? Hidden Host Plant Infection by the Pathogen Botrytis cinerea Alters Interactions between Plants, Aphids and Their Natural Enemies in the Field. [PDF]

Insects
Ngah N, Thomas RL, Fellowes MDE.
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Ozone‐driven degradation of sex pheromone in Plutella xylostella: Implications for reproductive communication and mating success

Insect Science, EarlyView.
In this study, we examined whether realistic ozone concentrations can interfere with sexual communication in the insect pest Plutella xylostella, the diamondback moth. Ozone exposure caused a degradation of pheromone components, leading to significant changes in blend composition and component ratios.
Francesco Sorrentino, Delia M. Pinto‐Zevallos, Oksana Skaldina, James D. Blande   +3 more
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RNAi‐based functional genomics tools for the beet leafhopper using microinjection and nanoparticle‐based topical spray

Insect Science, EarlyView.
• First demonstration of functional RNAi in the beet leafhopper, Neoaliturus tenellus, using both dsRNA microinjection and star polycation nanoparticle‐mediated topical spray delivery.•Microinjection achieved over 90% knockdown of Gus and Pum3, revealing gene‐specific fitness effects on survival and fecundity in beet leafhopper.•Nanoparticle‐mediated ...
Jinlong Han, Maria Paula Mejia Alonzo, Meihua Cui, Katherine O. Puffer, Anna M. Wolff, Garret M. Miyake, Oliver T. Neher, Vamsi J. Nalam, Punya Nachappa   +8 more
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The comparison of species diversity and abundance of insect natural enemies in the domesticated species of cotton using the yellow pan trap method. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Tenguri P, Kranthi S, Naik CB, Mari A, Kumar R, Suke R, Nagrare VS, Narkhedkar NG, Waghmare VN, Prasad YG.   +9 more
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A horizontally acquired pantothenate gene drives vitellogenin's benefit to whitefly symbiosis persistence

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This diagram illustrates that the horizontally transferred panBC influences the level and localization of vitellogenin (Vg) by facilitating pantothenate production and juvenile hormone (JH) biosynthesis. In turn, Vg shields symbionts by suppressing autophagic degradation in bacteriocytes.
Xiang Sun, Bing‐Qi Liu, Zhan‐Bo Chen, Chu‐Qiao Li, Xing‐Ye Li, Jun‐Bo Luan   +5 more
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The Effects of Natural Insecticides on the Green Peach Aphid Myzus persicae (Sulzer) and Its Natural Enemies Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (L.) and Aphidius colemani Viereck. [PDF]

Insects
Lami F, Burgio G, Magagnoli S, Depalo L, Lanzoni A, Frassineti E, Marotti I, Alpi M, Mercatante D, Rodriguez-Estrada MT, Dinelli G, Masetti A.   +11 more
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Aphid and endosymbiont sensitivity to heatwaves is misaligned across life stages

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Aphids depend on the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola, which may constrain thermal tolerance. Using a factorial heatwave experiment, we exposed nymphs and adults to moderate or extreme temperatures and measured fitness and symbiont responses.
Evatt Chirgwin, Qiong Yang, Paul A. Umina, Xuan Cheng, Xinyue Gu, Alex Gill, Ary A. Hoffmann   +6 more
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Decades of Enclosure Protection Exert Composite Effects on Grassland Grasshopper Communities

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Decades of enclosure protection have altered grasshopper community structure, with species‐specific effects on population dynamics. For the low‐mobility grasshopper Chorthippus fallax, abundance did not differ strongly between exclosure‐protected and overgrazed areas, but its egg development duration was longer in exclosures. The two C.
Dan‐dan Feng, Hui‐feng Zhao, Ya‐hui Men, Jing Li, Mei‐ling Yang, Cai‐qing Yang, Bing Chen, Ai‐bing Zhang   +7 more
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
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