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Baldwyn Torto
Baldwyn Torto
Caenorhabditis elegans: A Model System for Accelerating Studies on Bacillus thuringiensis Infection in Insects [0.03%]
解码球菌：一种加速研究细菌晶体蛋白对昆虫感染的模型系统
Ming Sun,Jianwei Shi,Alejandra Bravo
Ming Sun
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is an important bacterium used worldwide to manage pest insects. A full understanding of how Bt establishes infection and how hosts elicit defense is crucial to develop Bt-derived pesticidal formulations. In this...
Xuguo Zhou,Austin Merchant,Qian Sun
Xuguo Zhou
Termites are among the most abundant terrestrial organisms on the planet and form one of the two largest eusocial groups alongside the holometabolous, haplodiploid Hymenoptera. Having evolved from cockroaches 150 million years ago, termites...
The Diverse and Intricate Interactions Between Flies and Amphibians: A Systematic Review of Their Host-Use Patterns and Strategies [0.03%]
fly和两栖动物之间的多样且复杂的相互作用：对其宿主利用模式和策略的系统性回顾
Leonardo Campos,Luiz Carlos Pinho,Selvino Neckel-Oliveira et al.
Leonardo Campos et al.
Species interactions are defined by the behavioral strategies deployed by the parties involved. However, a barrier to fully understanding the processes shaping those strategies has been the limited knowledge about the diverse and complex wa...
Tick-Borne Diseases in Urban and Periurban Areas: A Blind Spot in Research and Public Health [0.03%]
城市及城郊的蜱传疾病：研究和公共卫生中的盲点问题
Maria A Diuk-Wasser,Pilar Fernandez,Sophie O Vanwambeke
Maria A Diuk-Wasser
Tick-borne zoonotic diseases continue to emerge in North America and Europe. Of particular concern are pathogens transmitted by Ixodes ticks, such as Borrelia spp., the causal agents of Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis). Because Ixodes ticks ...
David Renault,Ana Previšić,Stéphane A P Derocles
David Renault
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) are omnipresent in our daily lives, and these emerging contaminants require increasing attention. PPCP and their metabolites are found in treated wastewater and in biosolids resulting from w...
Abdullahi A Yusuf
Abdullahi A Yusuf
Ants and termites play important roles in tropical ecosystems, leading to an evolutionary arms race in which diverse foraging, predation, and counterpredation strategies developed. These strategies resulted in the emergence of specialized p...
Bruno A S de Medeiros,David Peris
Bruno A S de Medeiros
An estimated 20% of about 400,000 species of beetles (Coleoptera) are flower visitors. Despite this huge taxonomic and natural history diversity, beetle-flower interactions have historically been overlooked and summarized as inefficient mes...
Yanwei Duan,Hans Merzendorfer,Qing Yang
Yanwei Duan
The insect cuticle is a complex extracellular matrix that provides physical support and protection against infection, dehydration, mechanical injury, and stress. Chitin with different degrees of deacetylation, and various kinds of cuticle p...
Heritable Viruses as Hidden Drivers of Insect Phenotypes and Evolution [0.03%]
可遗传病毒作为昆虫表型和进化隐秘驱动者的角色
Benjamin J Parker,Paula Rozo-Lopez
Benjamin J Parker
Recent studies using metatranscriptome sequencing have revealed a diversity of viruses associated with insects. Researchers have used various approaches to establish patterns of transmission of insect-specific viruses and have shown that in...