The role of carotenoids and their derivatives in mediating interactions between insects and their environment

Carnivores and carotenoids are associated with adaptive behavioural divergence in a radiation of gall midges

(2012) JEREMY J. HEATH et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Enhanced β-ionone Emission in Arabidopsis Over-expressing AtCCD1 Reduces Feeding Damage in vivo by the Crucifer Flea Beetle

(2012) Shu Wei et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Carotenoid oxidation products are stress signals that mediate gene responses to singlet oxygen in plants

(2012) F. Ramel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Induced mutations affecting pollinator choice in Mimulus lewisii (Phrymaceae)

(2011) Christina R. Owen et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Overlapping defense responses to water limitation and pathogen attack and their consequences for resistance to powdery mildew disease in garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata

(2011) Stephanie Enright et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Crystallization of α- and β-carotene in the foregut of Spodoptera larvae feeding on a toxic food plant

(2011) Yongqi Shao et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Carotenoids and their cleavage products: Biosynthesis and functions

(2011) Michael H. Walter et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Origin of the fittest: link between emergent variation and evolutionary change as a critical question in evolutionary biology

(2011) A. V. Badyaev   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dietary Supplementation with Carotenoids Improves Immunity without Increasing Its Cost in a Crustacean

(2010) Aurélie Babin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conspicuous gall colors: a response to T. C. R. White

(2010) M. Inbar et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Why do many galls have conspicuous colours? An alternative hypothesis revisited

(2010) T. C. R. White   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Dissecting the association between a gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera, and its symbiotic fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea

(2010) Jeremy J. Heath et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Symbiont-mediated phenotypic variation without co-evolution in an insect-fungus association

(2010) E. M. JANSON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effect of light intensity on colour morph formation and performance of the grain aphid Sitobion avenae F. (Homoptera: Aphididae)

(2010) Hussein Alkhedir et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Disruption of plant carotenoid biosynthesis through virus-induced gene silencing affects oviposition behaviour of the butterfly Pieris rapae

(2010) Si-Jun Zheng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Complex effects of parasitoids on pharmacophagy and diet choice of a polyphagous caterpillar

(2010) Angela M. Smilanich et al.   OECOLOGIA

Is the oxidative stress caused by Aspidosperma spp. galls capable of altering leaf photosynthesis?

(2010) Denis Coelho de Oliveira et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

(2010) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

Why do many galls have conspicuous colors? A new hypothesis

(2009) M. Inbar et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Same Host-Plant, Different Sterols: Variation in Sterol Metabolism in an Insect Herbivore Community

(2009) Eric M. Janson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

UV tolerance in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

(2009) Takeshi Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

A protean palette: colour materials and mixing in birds and butterflies

(2009) M. D Shawkey et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The role of carotenoids in the “golden glance” of danaid pupae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

(2009) Miriam Rothschild et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Carotenoids in thirty-eight species of Lepidoptera

(2009) John Feltwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Evolutionary diversification of the gall midge genus Asteromyia (Cecidomyiidae) in a multitrophic ecological context

(2009) John O. Stireman III et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Life history trade-offs are influenced by the diversity, availability and interactions of dietary antioxidants

(2008) Carlo Catoni et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Importance of olfactory and visual signals of autumn leaves in the coevolution of aphids and trees

(2008) Jarmo K. Holopainen   BIOESSAYS

Evolutionary radiation of Asteromyia carbonifera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) gall morphotypes on the goldenrod Solidago altissima (Asteraceae)

(2008) JOHN O. STIREMAN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Striga infestation of cereal crops – an unsolved problem in resource limited agriculture

(2008) Julie D Scholes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

Study of major aromatic compounds in port wines from carotenoid degradation

(2008) António César Silva Ferreira et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Functional Characterization of FaCCD1: A Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase from Strawberry Involved in Lutein Degradation during Fruit Ripening

(2008) Carmen García-Limones et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

The Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase 1 Enzyme Has Broad Substrate Specificity, Cleaving Multiple Carotenoids at Two Different Bond Positions

(2008) Jonathan T. Vogel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Lycopene Accumulation Affects the Biosynthesis of Some Carotenoid-related Volatiles Independent of Ethylene in Tomato

(2008) Hongyan Gao et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

In vitrocharacterization of a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase fromNostocsp. PCC 7120 reveals a novel cleavage pattern, cytosolic localization and induction by highlight

(2008) Daniel Scherzinger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

An Update on Abscisic Acid Signaling in Plants and More …

(2008) Aleksandra Wasilewska et al.   Molecular Plant

Accumulation of the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) at the infection site of the fungusCercospora beticolasupports the role of ABA as a repressor of plant defence in sugar beet

(2008) KLAUS SCHMIDT et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Global Switches and Fine-Tuning—ABA Modulates Plant Pathogen Defense

(2008) Bob Asselbergh et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Inhibition of shoot branching by new terpenoid plant hormones

(2008) Mikihisa Umehara et al.   NATURE

Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching

(2008) Victoria Gomez-Roldan et al.   NATURE

Raging hormones in plants

(2008) Eran Pichersky   Nature Chemical Biology

Gall insects can avoid and alter indirect plant defenses

(2008) John F. Tooker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tomato strigolactones are derived from carotenoids and their biosynthesis is promoted by phosphate starvation

(2008) Juan Antonio López-Ráez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolutionary ecology of pungency in wild chilies

(2008) J. J. Tewksbury et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity

(2008) J. D Blount et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES