This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities(No.AGL2014-57752-C2-2R and RTI2018-094350-B-C32);ALG was recipient of a PhD grant from the Spanish Ministry(grant BES-2015-071369).
Baculoviruses constitute a large group of invertebrate DNA viruses, predominantly infecting larvae of the insect order Lepidoptera. During a baculovirus infection, the virus spreads throughout the insect body producin...
supported by Yunnan postdoctoral research project,Yunnan postdoctoral orientation training project,Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(Grant No.XDB31000000);the CAS 135 Programs(2017XTBG-T01 and 2017XTBG-F01);National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program(31770472;Shirakami Research Center for Environmental Sciences,Hirosaki University;supported by the CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative(2018PC0031)。
Caterpillars(Lepidoptera and Symphyta larvae)employ diverse visual defensive tactics,and effectiveness of such tactics may be highly dynamic across time due to seasonal changes in the predator assemblages and their pr...
Interactions between ecological communities of herbivores and microbes are commonly mediated by a shared plant. A tripartite interaction between a pathogenic fungus-host plant-herbivorous insect is an example of such ...
Sentinel prey can provide a direct, quantitative measure of predation under field conditions. Live sentinel prey provides more realistic data but rarely allows the partitioning of the total predation pressure; artific...
Dear Editor, The Chinese caterpillar fungus, commonly known as "Dong Chong Xia Cao" (winter worm summer grass) in China, is one of the most valuable medicinal fungi in the world (Zhang et al., 2012). In the alp...
Acknowledgments We thank Drs. Roland Mumm, Yutong Qiu and Ties Huigens for their critical reading and helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This research was supported in part by Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (30330490) and Project from Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2007J0305).
The pine caterpillar Dendrolimus punctatus (Walker) with a larval facultative diapause is one of the most destructive insect pests of the pine tree Pinus massoniana in China. The larvae feeding on pine trees with di...