supported by Key Projects of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LZ21C140002);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32102186 and 31972261);Development and Demonstration of Comprehensive Technology for Prevention and Control of Major Diseases and Pests(2021YFD1401100).
The forkhead box O(FoxO)protein is the main transcriptional effector downstream of the insulin/insulin-like signaling pathway and regulates many developmental and physiological processes.Holometabolous insects with lo...
Most disturbed habitats in the tropics and subtropics harbor numerous species of invasive ants, and occasionally the same species has been introduced repeatedly from multiple geographical sources. We examined how expe...
We tested mutation accumulation hypothesis for the evolution of senescence using short-lived and long-lived populations of the seed-feeding beetle, Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say), obtained by selection on early- and...
Parasitoids have long proven to be model organisms in studying resourcerelated constraints on immature development. Here we examine the relationship between host cocoon (= pupal) size in the gregarious endoparasitoi...
Acknowledgments The research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30871639). We thank Dr. Q.Y. Huang for the helpful comments and suggestions on the manuscript, Ms. S. Xu and X. Yuan for assistance with experiments.
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The effects of delayed mating on the copulation duration, female fertility, fecundity, egg fertility, longevity and the number days alive after mating of females of diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, were ...
Entomopathogenic fungi have been used recently for the management ofwhite- fly (Bemisia tabaci) and diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella). In previous studies, lsaria fumosoroseus has shown some potential to cont...
Cross tolerance, whereby tolerance to one environmental stress is correlated with tolerance to other stressors, is thought to be widespread in insects. We used lines of Drosophila melanogaster Meigen (Diptera: Droso...
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Adult size, longevity, egg load dynamics and oviposition ofMicroplitis rufiventris Kok. which began their development in the first, second, third (preferred hosts) or fourth (non-preferred hosts) instar larvae of ...