Recent Publications

Using insecticidal compounds to elucidate the potential role of neurotransmitters in Lepidoptera pupal ecdysis

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Niranjana Krishnan, Cassandra Gorman, Jillian Stewart, Steven Bradbury, Russell Jurenka


Family-Level Diversity of Hymenopteran Parasitoid Communities in Agricultural Drainage Ditches and Implications for Biological Control

| Insects
Author(s): Shane Daniel Windsor, Alireza Shokoohi, Robert Salerno, William Lamp


A conserved sequence that sparked the field of evo-devo

| Developmental Biology
Author(s): Leslie Pick, Kristen Au


The “Ants of Cyprus” website: a dynamic, online awareness raising and conservation tool

| Biodiversity Data Journal
Author(s): Jakovos Demetriou, Christos Georgiadis, Sebastian Salata, Lech Borowiec, Mathias Dillen, Quentin Groom, Evan Economo, Helen Roy, Angeliki Martinou


Successes and failures of conservation actions to halt global river biodiversity loss

| Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Author(s): Peter Haase, Daniela Cortés-Guzmán, Fengzhi He, Jonathan F. Jupke, Tinotenda Mangadze, Fernando M. Pelicice, Margaret A. Palmer, Robert J. Rolls, Ralf B. Schäfer, Ellen A. R. Welti, et. al


Transmission of transgenic mosquito-killing fungi during copulation

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Etienne Bilgo, Brian Lovett, Abel Souro Millogo, Issiaka Sare, Edounou Jacques Gnambani, Raymond St. Leger, Abdoulaye Diabaté


A never-ending story: updated 3D cyber-taxonomic revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) for the Afrotropical region

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Francisco Hita Garcia, Kiko Gómez, Roberto A. Keller, Bernhard Schurian, Evan P. Economo


Removing autumn leaves in residential yards reduces the spring emergence of overwintering insects

| Science of the Total Environment
Author(s): Ferlauto, M., Burghardt, K.T.


The role of life stage and season in critical thermal limits of carrion beetles

| Journal of Thermal Biology
Author(s): Chloe F. Garfinkel, Christy M. McCain


Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

| Science
Author(s): Yuki Haba, PipPop Consortium‡, Petra Korlević, Erica McAlister, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Molly Schumer, Noah H. Rose, Carolyn S. McBride, Matthew L. Aardema, Maria O. Afonso, et. al


A weather-driven mathematical model of Culex population abundance and the impact of vector control interventions

| Ecological Informatics
Author(s): Suman Bhowmick, Patrick Irwin, Kristina Lopez, Megan Lindsay Fritz, Rebecca Lee Smith


Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth

| Journal of Ecology
Author(s): Catherine Fahey, Karin T. Burghardt, Eric A. Griffin, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Melissa K. McCormick, Jamie Pullen, Brian E. Sedio, John D. Parker


Linking the multiple types of monitoring to the adaptive management cycle to support environmental flows

| Journal of Environmental Management
Author(s): Dai, X., Webb, J.A., Horne, A.C., Rumpff, L., Palmer, M.A.


Evaluating the impacts of grass and legume living mulches on arthropod pests and beneficials, yield, and fruit quality in cantaloupe

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Demian A Nunez, Macarena Farcuh, Karin T Burghardt, Scott McCluen, Cerruti R R Hooks, Julien Beuzelin


Global Conservation Prioritisation Approach Provides Credible Results at a Regional Scale

| Diversity and Distributions
Author(s): Roswell, M., Espíndola, A.


Use of Beauveria Bassiana Mycoinsecticides Against Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma Delicatula) Adults, Nymphs, and Eggs in Semi-Natural Environments


Author(s): Emily Melissa Russavage, Emily J. Wallis, Melissa Benzinger McGlynn, Christopher B. Riley, Michael J. Raupp, Phil Lewis, Paula M. Shrewsbury


Polygenic response to selection by transgenic Bt-expressing crops in wild Helicoverpa zea and characterization of a major effect locus

| BMC Genomics
Author(s): Katherine L. Taylor, Jane Quackenbush, Cara Lamberty, Kelly A. Hamby, Megan L. Fritz


The evolution of complex Metarhizium-insect-plant interactions

| Fungal Biology
Author(s): Raymond J. St. Leger


Same rule, different genes:
Blimp1
is a pair-rule gene in the milkweed bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus

| Science Advances
Author(s): Katie Reding, Matthew Chung, Abigail Heath, Julie Dunning Hotopp, Leslie Pick


Same rule, different genes: Blimp1 is a pair-rule gene in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

| Science Advances
Author(s): Katie Reding, Matthew Chung, Abigail Heath, Julie Dunning Hotopp, Leslie Pick


Metarhizium fight club: Within-host competitive exclusion and resource partitioning

| PLOS Pathogens
Author(s): Huiyu Sheng, Raymond J. St. Leger


Diel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Demonstrate a Strong Response to Vegetation Patch Types in a Freshwater Wetland

| Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Author(s): Aileen K. Taylor, Sean J. Sharp, Graham A. Stewart, Michael R. Williams, Greg W. McCarty, Margaret A. Palmer