It is time to bridge the gap between exploring and exploiting: prospects for utilizing intraspecific genetic variation to optimize arthropods for augmentative pest control - a review

Laboratory Performance Predicts the Success of Field Releases in Inbred Lines of the Egg Parasitoid Trichogramma pretiosum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

(2016) Aloisio Coelho et al.   PLoS One

Opinion: Is CRISPR-based gene drive a biocontrol silver bullet or global conservation threat?: Fig. 1.

(2015) Bruce L. Webber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic Improvement of Invertebrate Natural Enemies—Breeding and Quality Control of a Flightless Lady Beetle—

(2015) Tomokazu Seko et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Food consumption and immature growth of Adalia bipunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on a natural prey and a factitious food

(2014) Mohammad A. JALALI et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Causes of polymorphic melanism and its thermoregulatory function in a parasitoid wasp Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

(2014) Yosuke ABE et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Can Neutral Molecular Markers be Used to Determine the Success of an Introduction of a “Better” Strain Into an Established Population of a Biocontrol Parasitoid?

(2014) Richard Stouthamer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

CRISPR-Cas systems for editing, regulating and targeting genomes

(2014) Jeffry D Sander et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Sequencing pools of individuals — mining genome-wide polymorphism data without big funding

(2014) Christian Schlötterer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Suppression of aphids by augmentative release of larvae of flightlessHarmonia axyridis

(2013) T. Seko et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Genetic variation and the performance of a mass-reared parasitoid,Trichogramma pretiosum(Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), in laboratory trials

(2013) A. Guzmán-Larralde et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Development of aNasonia vitripennisoutbred laboratory population for genetic analysis

(2013) Louis van de Zande et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The Pesticide Paradox

(2013) M. Enserink et al.   SCIENCE

Genome sequencing and population genomics in non-model organisms

(2013) Hans Ellegren   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Releases of a natural flightless strain of the ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata reduce aphid-born honeydew beneath urban lime trees

(2012) Suzanne T. E. Lommen et al.   BIOCONTROL

Genetic improvement of the biological control nematodeHeterorhabditis bacteriophora(Rhabditidomorpha: Heterorhabditidae): heterosis effect enhances desiccation but not heat tolerance

(2012) Samuel Ashebir Anbesse et al.   BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cold-acclimation increases the predatory efficiency of the aphidophagous coccinellid Adalia bipunctata

(2012) Christian Hougaard Sørensen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Mass-rearing of insects for pest management: Challenges, synergies and advances from evolutionary physiology

(2012) Jesper G. Sørensen et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Genetic linkage between melanism and winglessness in the ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata

(2012) Suzanne T. E. Lommen et al.   GENETICA

Direct and correlated responses to laboratory selection for body melanisation in Drosophila melanogaster: support for the melanisation-desiccation resistance hypothesis

(2012) S. Ramniwas et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Selection of promising fungal biological control agent of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)

(2012) S. Niassy et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Intra-Population Genetic Variation in the Temporal Pattern of Egg Maturation in a Parasitoid Wasp

(2012) Eric Wajnberg et al.   PLoS One

The state of commercial augmentative biological control: plenty of natural enemies, but a frustrating lack of uptake

(2011) Joop C. van Lenteren   BIOCONTROL

Control of Aphis gossypii and Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) by a flightless strain of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on green pepper plants in open fields

(2011) Masahiro IGUCHI et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE QTN PROGRAM AND THE ALLELES THAT MATTER FOR EVOLUTION: ALL THAT'S GOLD DOES NOT GLITTER

(2011) Matthew V. Rockman   EVOLUTION

A steep cline in ladybird melanism has decayed over 25 years: a genetic response to climate change?

(2011) P M Brakefield et al.   HEREDITY

The Next Generation of Molecular Markers From Massively Parallel Sequencing of Pooled DNA Samples

(2010) Andreas Futschik et al.   GENETICS

The quantitative genetic basis of sex ratio variation in Nasonia vitripennis: a QTL study

(2010) B. A. PANNEBAKKER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Selection of entomopathogenic nematodes for enhanced responsiveness to a volatile root signal helps to control a major root pest

(2010) I. Hiltpold et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Temperature-Dependent Development of the Two-Spotted Ladybeetle,Adalia bipunctata, on the Green Peach Aphid,Myzus persicae, and a Factitious Food Under Constant Temperatures

(2010) Mohammad. Amin. Jalali et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Parasitism of different Trichogramma species and strains on Plutella xylostella L. on greenhouse cauliflower

(2010) Elisabeth Tabone et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century

(2010) J. Gornall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic improvement of the desiccation tolerance and host-seeking ability of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltiae

(2010) L. Salame et al.   PHYTOPARASITICA

Industrial Melanism in the Peppered Moth Is Not Associated with Genetic Variation in Canonical Melanisation Gene Candidates

(2010) Arjen E. van't Hof et al.   PLoS One

Do new Access and Benefit Sharing procedures under the Convention on Biological Diversity threaten the future of biological control?

(2009) Matthew J. W. Cock et al.   BIOCONTROL

Response of a complex foraging phenotype to artificial selection on its component traits

(2009) Punya Nachappa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Mapping genes for complex traits in domestic animals and their use in breeding programmes

(2009) Michael E. Goddard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Residence period of a flightless strain of the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in open fields

(2008) Tomokazu Seko et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Natural flightless morphs of the ladybird beetle Adalia bipunctata improve biological control of aphids on single plants

(2008) Suzanne T.E. Lommen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Evolutionarily significant units in natural enemies: Identifying regional populations of Aphidius transcaspicus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for use in biological control of mealy plum aphid

(2008) Jeffrey D. Lozier et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Genome-wide analysis of the interaction between the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia and its Drosophila host

(2008) Zhiyong Xi et al.   BMC GENOMICS

EFFECTS OF SPONTANEOUS MUTATION ACCUMULATION ON SEX RATIO TRAITS IN A PARASITOID WASP

(2008) Bart A. Pannebakker et al.   EVOLUTION

Development and evolution of insect pigmentation: Genetic mechanisms and the potential consequences of pleiotropy

(2008) Patricia J. Wittkopp et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY