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Comparative transcriptome analysis provides a glance into the regulation of the Krüppel homolog 1 on the reproduction and diapause of the predatory ladybeetle, Coccinella septempunctata

BMC Genomics
As a typical natural predator of agricultural pests, the lady beetle, Coccinella septempunctata, has been commercially mass-reared and widely employed in in pest management.
Junjie Chen, Xiaoxiao Liu, Shunda Han, Maosen Zhang, Zhaohan Liu, Yuyan Li, Lisheng Zhang   +6 more
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Solving the Wolbachia Paradox: Modeling the Tripartite Interaction between Host, Wolbachia, and a Natural Enemy [PDF]

, 2011
Wolbachia is one of the most common symbionts of arthropods. Its establishment requires lateral transfer to and successful transmission within novel host species.
Brownlie, Jeremy C., Fenton, Andrew, Hurst, Gregory D. D., Johnson, Karyn N.   +3 more
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Self‐Heating and Thermal Gradient in Solid‐State Batteries: Friend or Foe?

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This work investigates the role of self‐heating and thermal gradients derived from the kinetics/transport interactions within the cathode microstructure, electrode architecture, and operating regimes, thus encouraging a mechanism‐centric design of anode‐free solid‐state batteries for next‐generation high‐power applications.
Abhinand Ayyaswamy, Bairav S. Vishnugopi, Partha P. Mukherjee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Sex Ratio and Colony Size to Enhance Reproduction and Mass‐Rearing in Spodoptera litura Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions

Ecology and Evolution
The tobacco cutworm Spodoptera litura is a globally distributed polyphagous agricultural pest and common factitious host for mass‐producing biological control agents (e.g., predators, parasitoids, entomopathogens), owing to its rapid development, and ...
Chuanzhen Xue, Hanqi Li, Bowen Xu, Jiaying Mao, Xiaotong Xu, Yuanfei Li, Jianjun Mao, Mengqing Wang, Huizi Wu, Hancheng Wang, Yuyan Li, Lisheng Zhang   +11 more
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Identifying aphid resistance in the ancestral wheat Triticum monococcum under field conditions

Scientific Reports, 2021
Wheat is an economically, socially, and nutritionally important crop, however, aphid infestation can often reduce wheat yield through feeding and virus transmission.
Amma L. Simon, John C. Caulfield, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Linda M. Field, Gudbjorg I. Aradottir   +4 more
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At Which Spatial Scale Does Crop Diversity Enhance Natural Enemy Populations and Pest Control? An Experiment in a Mosaic Cropping System

Agronomy, 2022
The importance of plant richness to enhance the presence, biodiversity and efficiency of natural enemies in agricultural systems has largely been studied and demonstrated these last decades.
Coline C. Jaworski, Eva Thomine, Adrien Rusch, Anne-Violette Lavoir, Chunli Xiu, Di Ning, Yanhui Lu, Su Wang, Nicolas Desneux   +8 more
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Porcine kidney xenotransplantation: From primate models to clinical reality

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
In the face of a critical shortage of human donor kidneys for end‐stage renal disease patients, porcine kidney xenotransplantation has emerged as a viable solution. This field has navigated major hurdles, including immune rejection, physiological incompatibilities, potential biomechanical differences and the risk of cross‐species infection. To overcome
Zihang Guo, Ling Zhang, Shoulong Deng, Chuan Qin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Resource (Dis)continuity for Conservation Biological Control: From Field to Landscape Scales

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020
Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to promote the occurrence of natural enemies of agricultural pests by managing habitat to provide key resources in and around farm fields.
Benjamin Iuliano, Claudio Gratton, Claudio Gratton   +2 more
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Meta-analysis reveals that seed-applied neonicotinoids and pyrethroids have similar negative effects on abundance of arthropod natural enemies [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
Background Seed-applied neonicotinoids are widely used in agriculture, yet their effects on non-target species remain incompletely understood. One important group of non-target species is arthropod natural enemies (predators and parasitoids), which ...
Margaret R. Douglas, John F. Tooker
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Theoretical Study of Pest Control Using Stage Structured Natural Enemies with Maturation Delay: A Crop-Pest-Natural Enemy Model [PDF]

, 2013
In the natural world, there are many insect species whose individual members have a life history that takes them through two stages, immature and mature. Moreover, the rates of survival, development, and reproduction almost always depend on age, size, or
Dhar, Joydip, Jatav, Kunwer Singh
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