supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 32372528 and 32020103011);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(grant number BK20211213);the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology(grant number TJ-2023-038)。
The two-spotted spider mite(Tetranychus urticae)is one of the most well-known pesticide-resistant agricultural pests,with resistance often attributed to changes such as target-site mutations and detoxification activat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32020103011,32001905,and 31871976).
The endosymbiont Wolbachia manipulates host reproduction by several strategies, one of the most important of which is cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI can be rescued when Wolbachia-infected males mate with females...
supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council(DP120100916).
The Scaptodrosophila genus represents a large group of drosophilids with a worldwide distribution and a predominance of species in Australia,but there is little information on the presence and impacts of Wolbachia end...
The authors thank Kerry M.Oliver and David Plotkin for critical reviews of this manuscript,and we thank Pei-Qiong Shi for culture of whitefly lines.This work was supported by the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Research Fund(U1701231);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672028);Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2018B020205003)to BLQ.The funders had no role in the study design,data collection and interpretation,or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Cardinium and Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacterial symbionts of arthropods that can manipulate host reproduction by increasing the fitness of infected females.Here,we report that Cardinium and Wolbachia coinfe...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871991);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(2019CFB471);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2662018JC049).
The brown planthopper,Nilaparvata lugens,is one of the main insect pests of rice.The N.lugens gene NICYP4CE1 encodes cytochrome P450 monooxygenase(P450),which is a key enzyme in the metabolism of the insecticide imida...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672352);the International Cooperation Projects of Science and Technology of Hubei Province,China(2017AHB050).
As one of the most successful intracellular symbiotic bacteria,Wolbachia can infect many arthropods and nematodes.Wolbachia infection usually affects the reproduction of their hosts to promote their own proliferation ...
supported in part by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research(31672035,31871976,31901888)from the National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China and the China Postdoc-toral Science Foundation Grant(2019M651864).
Microorganisms prov ide many physiological functions to herbivorous hosts.Spider mites(genus Tetranychus)are important agricultural pests throughout the world;however,the composition of the spider mite microbial commu...
Authors thank Professor Scott O'Neill(Monash Univer-sity,Australia)for prov iding Dmel wMel flies.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China(No.31672352).
Wolbachia are Gram-negative endosymbionts that are known to cause embry-onic lethality when infected male insects mate with uninfected females or with females carrying a different strain of Wolbachia,a situation chara...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.31672317,State's Key Project of Research and Development Plan,No.2016YFD0200900;Competitive Planning Projects of Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences,No.2016jzxjh012.No additional external funding was re-ceived for this study.The funders had no role in study design,data collection or analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript.We thank Dr.Christine Watts for manuscript suggestions.
Hybyphantes graminicola is a resident spider species found in maize and cotton fields and is an important biological control agent of various pests.Previous studies have demonstrated that stress from elevated CO2 and ...
This study was sup-ported in part by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research(31672035,31871976)from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Wolbachia and Spiroplasma are intracellular bacteria that are of great interest to entomologists,because of their ability to alter insect host biology in multiple ways.In the spider mite Tetranychus truncatus,co-infec...