Evolution of Host Defense against Multiple Enemy Populations [PDF]
, 2016 Natural and managed populations are embedded within complex ecological communities, where they face multiple enemies. Experimental studies have shown that the evolution of host defense mechanisms to a focal enemy is impacted by the surrounding enemy ...
Best, A., Toor, J.
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Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries [PDF]
, 2016 Species have strong indirect effects on others, and predicting these effects is a central challenge in ecology. Prey species sharing an enemy (predator or parasitoid) can be linked by apparent competition, but it is unknown whether this process is strong
Didham, RK +5 more
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The effect of within-crop habitat manipulations on the conservation biological control of aphids in field-grown lettuce [PDF]
, 2011 Within-crop habitat manipulations have the potential to increase the biological control of pests in horticultural field crops. Wildflower strips have been shown to increase the abundance of natural enemies, but there is little evidence to date of an ...
Kravar-Garde, L. (Lidija) +4 more
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Effects of Grassland Habitat and Plant Nutrients on Soybean Aphid and Natural Enemy Populations [PDF]
, 2011 The soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is an invasive economic pest of soybean (Glycine max[L.] Merrill) in the United States.
O'Neal, Matthew +4 more
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First record of Neodryinus typhlocybae in Hungary (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Neodryinus typhlocybae (Ashmead, 1893), a Nearctic dryinid wasp species introduced to Europe as a natural enemy of Metcalfa pruinosa (Say, 1830), is first reported here from Hungary.
Korányi, Dávid +2 more
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Genomic insights into mite phylogeny, fitness, development, and reproduction
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) are the most important beneficial arthropods used in augmentative biological pest control of protected crops around the world.
Yan-Xuan Zhang +15 more
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Interactions between the predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo and the entomopathogenic fungus Neozygites tanajoae and consequences for the suppression of their shared prey/host Mononychellus tanajoa [PDF]
, 2016 Published online: 28 October 2012The predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo and the entomopathogenic fungus Neozygites tanajoae, both introduced from Brazil for control of the cassava green mite (CGM) Mononychellus tanajoa, now co-occur in cassava fields in
Agboton, B. +4 more
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Enemy escape: A general phenomenon in a fragmented literature?
FACETS, 2017 Many populations are thought to be regulated, in part, by their natural enemies. If so, disruption of this regulation should allow rapid population growth.
Julia J. Mlynarek +10 more
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Testosterone maintains male longevity and female reproduction in Chrysopa pallens
HeliyonVertebrate testosterone, an androgen present in the testes, is essential for male fertility. Vertebrate-type steroid hormones have been identified in insects, but their function remains unknown.
Xiaoping Liu +8 more
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Macrophage Extracellular Traps in Immunity and Cancer
Advanced Science, EarlyView.As a macrophage‐mediated innate defense mechanism, the dysregulated release of METs drives chronic inflammation and influences tumor progression. Furthermore, METs exhibit a functional duality within the tumor microenvironment, capable of both promoting and suppressing tumor development.
Junyao Li +5 more
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