Insects represent an important taxon for the functioning of ecosystems. They also contribute to human and animal nutrition and are vector agents of several diseases. In Congo-Brazzaville the diversity of entomofauna i...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32160666 and 32370523);the Guizhou Province Science and Technology Support Project([2022]General 239).
Insects and microorganisms are ubiquitous in almost all ecosystems and contribute significantly to ecosystem stability(Schowalter et al.2018;Crespo-Pérez et al.2020;Sun et al.2023;Sveen et al.2023).Due to climate cha...
CONAHCyT(Consejo Nacional de Humanidades Ciencia y Tecnologia)for scholarship support(941376).
The accelerated growth of aquaculture has encouraged the search for new techniques and inputs to increase the yield of various aquaculture species,considering the health and welfare of the organisms.Functional food de...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Number:2023YFD1700502);Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter,Nankai University,(Grant Number:63181206);the Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations,China(Grant Number:YYJC202102).
Cyclic dinucleotides(CDNs)play important physiological roles in bacteria,mammals and insects as a novel class of signaling molecules.However,the application of CDNs in agricultural pest control has not been reported y...
supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830074);the“Pioneer”and“Leading Goose”R&D Program of Zhejiang(No.2023C02030);the Program for Chinese Innovation Team in Key Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(2016RA4008)。
Dear Editor,Insect saliva is formed and secreted by the salivary gland,which is vital for various physiological processes,such as feeding and for viral transmission.More recently,omic approaches,such as transcriptomic...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31500331,32071527).
Background Interactions between alien plants and insect herbivores in introduced ranges may determine their invasion success. However, few studies have investigated whether alien plants respond differently to native a...
Lepidoptera stem borers cause significant damage in irrigated rice in Burkina Faso. This study was conducted to monitor the damage associated with these insect pests in an integrated cropping system over two consecuti...
An arms race underway in France vies to build the world’s lar-gest insect farm,as several companies seek to capitalize on what has been estimated by one market analysis firm to become a 3.3 billion USD industry by 20...
This research was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFE0104900)awarded to Ling Meng.
We attempt to determine the effect of the dietary switch from a native to non-native prey on the gut microbiota in the predaceous ladybird Harmonia axyridis larvae and adults and examine how the dietary effect may var...