Recent Publications

Conservation and variation in pair-rule gene expression and function in the intermediate-germ beetle Dermestes maculatus

| Development
Author(s): Jie Xiang, Katie Reding, Alison Heffer, Leslie Pick

Risks to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species

| Nature Ecology & Evolution
Author(s): Adam J. Vanbergen, Anahí Espíndola, Marcelo A. Aizen

Contemporary evolution of a Lepidopteran species, Heliothis virescens, in response to modern agricultural practices.

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Fritz ML, DeYonke AM, Papanicolaou A, Micinski S, Westbrook J, Gould F

Establishment of molecular genetic approaches to study gene expression and function in an invasive hemipteran, Halyomorpha halys

| EvoDevo
Author(s): Yong Lu, Mengyao Chen, Katie Reding, Leslie Pick

Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways

| Ecology
Author(s): Eric M. Lind, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Eric W. Seabloom, Juan Alberti, Oscar Iribarne, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S. Gruner, Adam D. Kay, Jesus Pascal, Justin P. Wright, et. al

The Drosophila model system for analyzing natural variation in resistance to Metarhizium spp biocontrol agents

| Entomology 2017

Alternative transcription start site selection in Mr-OPY2 controls lifestyle transitions in the fungus Metarhizium robertsii

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Na Guo, Ying Qian, Qiangqiang Zhang, Xiaoxuan Chen, Guohong Zeng, Xing Zhang, Wubing Mi, Chuan Xu, Raymond J. St. Leger, Weiguo Fang

Pyruvate Accumulation Is the First Line of Cell Defense against Heat Stress in a Fungus

| mBio
Author(s): Xing Zhang, Raymond J. St. Leger, Weiguo Fang

10-min: PBT, Pest Control

| Entomology 2017

Listening to ecosystems: data-rich acoustic monitoring through landscape-scale sensor networks

| Ecological Research
Author(s): Samuel R. P. -J. Ross, Nicholas R. Friedman, Kenneth L. Dudley, Masashi Yoshimura, Takuma Yoshida, Evan P. Economo

Re-wiring of segmentation gene regulatory network during insect evolution

| Entomology 2017

Global phylogeography of the insect pest Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchinae) relates to the history of its main host, Vigna unguiculata

| Journal of Biogeography
Author(s): Khadim Kébé, Nadir Alvarez, Midori Tuda, Göran Arnqvist, Charles W. Fox, Mbacké Sembène, Anahí Espíndola

TRANSGENIC INSECT KILLING FUNGUS BETTER KILLS INSECTICIDE-RESISTANT, MALARIA-VECTOR MOSQUITOES

| AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Molecular evolutionary trends and feeding ecology diversification in the Hemiptera, anchored by the milkweed bug genome


Author(s): Kristen A. Panfilio, Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch, Joshua B. Benoit, Deniz Erezyilmaz, Yuichiro Suzuki, Stefano Colella, Hugh M. Robertson, Monica F. Poelchau, Robert M. Waterhouse, Panagiotis Ioannidis, et. al

Genome‐wide identification of pathogenicity, conidiation and colony sectorization genes in Metarhizium robertsii

| Environmental Microbiology
Author(s): Guohong Zeng, Xiaoxuan Chen, Xing Zhang, Qiangqiang Zhang, Chuan Xu, Wubin Mi, Na Guo, Hong Zhao, Yue You, Farah‐Jade Dryburgh, et. al

Climate variation alters the synchrony of host–parasitoid interactions

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Miles T. Wetherington, David E. Jennings, Paula M. Shrewsbury, Jian J. Duan

Taxonomic overview of the hyperdiverse ant genusTetramoriumMayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in India with descriptions and X-ray microtomography of two new species from the Andaman Islands

| PeerJ
Author(s): Gaurav Agavekar, Francisco Hita Garcia, Evan P. Economo

Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study

| Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Author(s): Tomasz Suchan, Anahí Espíndola, Sereina Rutschmann, Brent C. Emerson, Kevin Gori, Christophe Dessimoz, Nils Arrigo, Michał Ronikier, Nadir Alvarez

Demographic model selection using random forests and the site frequency spectrum

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Megan L. Smith, Megan Ruffley, Anahí Espíndola, David C. Tank, Jack Sullivan, Bryan C. Carstens

Indigenous arthropod natural enemies of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug in North America and Europe

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Paul K. Abram, Kim A. Hoelmer, Angelita Acebes-Doria, Heather Andrews, Elizabeth H. Beers, J. Christopher Bergh, Ric Bessin, David Biddinger, Paul Botch, Matthew L. Buffington, et. al

Field surveys of egg mortality and indigenous egg parasitoids of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in ornamental nurseries in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Ashley L. Jones, David E. Jennings, Cerruti R. R. Hooks, Paula M. Shrewsbury

Laboratory rearing of Halyomorpha halys: methods to optimize survival and fitness of adults during and after diapause

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Christopher M. Taylor, Peter L. Coffey, Kelly A. Hamby, Galen P. Dively

Rise of the spiny ants: diversification, ecology and function of extreme traits in the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Eli M Sarnat, Nicholas R Friedman, Georg Fischer, Beatrice Lecroq-Bennet, Evan P Economo

Pollinators and crossability as reproductive isolation barriers in two sympatric oil-rewarding Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species

| Evolutionary Ecology
Author(s): Maureen Murúa, Anahí Espíndola, Alejandra González, Rodrigo Medel

Next-generation morphological character discovery and evaluation: an X-ray micro-CT enhanced revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) in the Afrotropics

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Francisco Hita Garcia, Georg Fischer, Cong Liu, Tracy L. Audisio, Evan P. Economo