Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jingyu Sun, Chunji Li, Jinqi Jiang, Changgui Song, Chao Wang, Kaiyang Feng, Peng Wei, Lin He
Summary: This study investigated the inheritance and characteristics of cyetpyrafen resistance in Tetranychus urticae, including cross resistance, incomplete dominance, and polygenic inheritance. Additionally, the resistant strain showed a fitness advantage. Therefore, rational application and preventive strategies should be implemented to sustain the efficacy of cyetpyrafen against T. urticae.
PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
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Genetics & Heredity
Andre H. Kurlovs, Berdien De Beer, Meiyuan Ji, Marilou Vandenhole, Tim De Meyer, Rene Feyereisen, Richard M. Clark, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Summary: The study found that in the two-spotted spider mite, trans effects are common in explaining variation in detoxification gene expression, with the striking trans-driven upregulation of a subset of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases of broad substrate specificity in the most pesticide resistant strains.
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Agronomy
Catherine Mermans, Wannes Dermauw, Sven Geibel, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Summary: Afoxolaner demonstrated strong antagonistic activity against GABACls of T. urticae, making it a powerful tool for controlling spider mites. In contrast, other drugs such as fluralaner, fipronil, and endosulfan showed minimal antagonistic activities against GABACls channels of T. urticae.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Yan Zhang, Tian Tian, Kun Zhang, You-jun Zhang, Qing-jun Wu, Wen Xie, Zhao-jiang Guo, Shao-li Wang
Summary: This study developed a near-isogenic line to understand the inheritance, cross-resistance, and fitness costs associated with abamectin resistance in the field population of T. urticae in China. The NIL-Aba strain had a significant level of resistance to abamectin and cross-resistance to bifenthrin and emamectin benzoate. It also showed no fitness cost based on two sex life table parameters.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Wenxin Xue, Nicky Wybouw, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Summary: Genetic variants of the cd1- and ef-helices of mitochondrial cytochrome b have been linked to bifenazate resistance in spider mites, but the G126S substitution alone is not sufficient to confer resistance according to toxicity bioassays.
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Bruna L. Merlin, Lucia P. Ferreira, Wesley A. C. Godoy, Gilberto J. Moraes, Fernando L. Consoli
Summary: The study found that the host plant affects the functional response and attack rate of predatory mites, resulting in different types of functional responses. Prey quality and predator acclimation to host plant-prey systems also affect the functional response of predatory mites.
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Caroline M. Nieberding, Aubin Kaisin, Bertanne Visser
Summary: Habitat fragmentation reduces genetic variability and increases species extinction risk. However, learning behavior can help animals adapt to fragmented habitats. In this study, inbreeding was found to reduce the ability of a spider mite species to learn and colonize new host plants.
ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALIS
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Muhammad Kamran, Zahid Mehmood Sarwar, Ayyan Umer, Sarfraz Ali Shad, Muhammad Abubakar
Summary: This study investigated the resistance risk, inheritance, and cross-resistance of Tetranychus urticae to spiromesifen. The results showed that spiromesifen resistance in T. urticae is polygenic, with autosomal inheritance and incomplete dominance. The resistant strain showed no cross-resistance to chlorfenapyr and low cross-resistance to chlorpyrifos and spirotetramat. The findings provide valuable insights for future resistance management programs against T. urticae.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TROPICAL INSECT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Margarita Takou, Tuomas Hamala, Evan M. Koch, Kim A. Steige, Hannes Dittberner, Levi Yant, Mathieu Genete, Shamil Sunyaev, Vincent Castric, Xavier Vekemans, Outi Savolainen, Juliette de Meaux
Summary: The study found that in the populations of the European subspecies Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea, edge populations faced a decline in effective population size and an increase in derived nonsynonymous variants, indicating an increase in the genomic burden of deleterious mutations but a decrease in rare deleterious variants. While the demographic history predicted a slight decrease in per-individual fitness for the range-edge population, it performed well in terms of growth and survival, showing strong resilience to the effect of range expansion.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Entomology
Galina V. Mitina, Irina A. Tulaeva, Svetlana M. Malysh, Yuri S. Tokarev
Summary: Experimental selection leads to mutations in spider mites resistant to acaricides, which are also formed under natural conditions, serving as a model to study acaricide resistance mechanisms. Mutations in the GluCl gene of avermectin-resistant mites are less common, suggesting alternative mechanisms of resistance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACAROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Entomology
Inara A. Martins, Erika C. Silveira, Douglas C. Souza, Leopoldo F. O. Bernardi, Bruno H. S. Souza, Luciane Resende
Summary: Cultivating resistant genotypes is an effective method for controlling mite populations. This study evaluated the resistance of strawberry genotypes to Tetranychus urticae and found that MDA22 genotype showed intermediate resistance. This information can be used in breeding programs.
PERSIAN JOURNAL OF ACAROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Rachael Y. Dudaniec, Alexander R. Carey, Erik I. Svensson, Bengt Hansson, Chuan Ji Yong, Lesley T. Lancaster
Summary: Our study reveals that as the common bluetail damselfly population expands, male body size increases with latitude while female body size remains constant, resulting in reduced sexual dimorphism; there is a steep decline in male genetic similarity with increasing geographic distance, with a gradient in migration propensity and distance along latitudes; cooler mean temperatures are associated with increased resistance to gene flow, and sex ratios skew towards males at the expanding range front.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhonghua Ning, Cong Chen, Baoshan Cui, Yihui Zhang, Tian Xie, Qing Wang, Zhenchang Zhu, Junhong Bai, Tjeerd J. Bouma
Summary: Species range expansion induced by climate change and human activities can have negative impacts on native populations and communities. This study provides evidence that a range-expanding wood-borer moth heavily attacks a foundation plant species in salt marshes, impacting its recruitment and succession. The research also highlights the importance of maternal oviposition effects in range-expanding insects using novel host-plants.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Zoology
P. A. Arnold, P. Cassey, C. R. White
Summary: Dispersal plays a crucial role in individual fitness, population dynamics, and range expansion. The spatial sorting of phenotypes at range edges and invasion fronts can lead to changes in morphological traits related to dispersal. However, different study systems exhibit varying responses to spatial sorting, and separating spatial sorting from natural selection and population dynamics is challenging.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Angela Chuang, Susan E. Riechert
Summary: This study investigates the dispersal and exploratory tendencies in two spider populations and finds evidence of spatial sorting in one population, suggesting a context-dependent phenomenon. The study also reveals population-level differences in boldness and exploration, which have a heritable component. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the interactions between natural and spatial selection and the potential context dependency in spatial sorting.
Article
Zoology
Cyril Courtial, Kaina Privet, Xavier Aubriot, Lionel Picard, Julien Petillon
Summary: A new species of Hypaeus, Hypaeus olympeae sp. nov., is described from French Guiana based on morphological evidence, field observation, and COI sequences. Both males and females belong to the same species. Additionally, nine new species are recorded for the salticid fauna of French Guiana, and 12 COI sequences corresponding to previously unsequenced Hypaeus species are added to GenBank.
STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mengjie Chang, Mingyang Li, Wencheng Xu, Xin Li, Jian Liu, Robby Stoks, Chao Zhang
Summary: This study found that temperature fluctuations and multigenerational exposure have significant impacts on the ecological risk assessment of microplastics. Microplastics had no effects on Daphnia under standard temperature conditions, but increased fecundity, heat tolerance, energy storage, cytochrome P450 activity, and decreased energy consumption under increased mean temperature or temperature fluctuations, indicating a hormesis effect. The study highlights the importance of considering temperature fluctuations and multigenerational exposure to improve the ecological risk assessment of microplastics under global warming.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Eloise Couthouis, Stephanie Aviron, Julien Petillon, Audrey Alignier
Summary: This study examined the multifunctionality of winter cereal fields and hedgerows, finding that hedgerows outperformed crop fields in terms of biodiversity conservation and pest control functions. Organic and conventional farming showed similar agroecosystem multifunctionality, but conventional farming had higher yields. Landscape factors like hedgerow density and semi-natural habitats had little influence on multifunctionality at the agroecosystem level.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Ying-Jie Wang, Nedim Tuezuen, Luc De Meester, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Arnaud Sentis, Robby Stoks
Summary: Species can adapt to warming through rapid evolution and plastic responses. In this study, we investigated the rapid evolution of thermal performance curves (TPCs) for multiple traits in the water flea Daphnia magna through a 2-year experimental evolution trial. The results showed that heat-selected Daphnia exhibited evolutionary shifts in TPCs for survival, fecundity, and population growth rate towards higher optimum temperatures, indicating a better ability to maintain fitness at high temperatures. However, there was no evolution observed in TPCs for somatic growth, mass, and development rate, as well as energy gain and cost-related traits.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sandra Lubinska-Mielinska, Zygmunt Kacki, Dariusz Kaminski, Julien Petillon, Christiane Evers, Agnieszka Piernik
Summary: Inland salt marshes in Europe are unique and valuable habitats, but there is still a lack of understanding regarding their vegetation classification and environmental requirements. In order to investigate the relationship between vegetation and environmental factors, researchers collected a database of vegetation plots from various European countries and analyzed the data using statistical and multivariate methods. They identified nine classes of vegetation, including two typical salt-marsh vegetation classes, and found significant differences in species preferences and environmental factors among these classes. This information has direct implications for the sustainable management of salt marshes.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Charlotte Theys, Julie Verheyen, Vienna Delnat, Lizanne Janssens, Nedim Tuzun, Robby Stoks
Summary: Integrating life-history, physiological, and behavioral traits into the pace-of-life helps understand trait variation in nature. This study provides evidence for the contribution of the gut microbiome to the latitudinal differentiation in both the pace-of-life and heat adaptation in damselfly larvae populations. The gut microbiome composition showed an adaptive latitude-specific shift under heat wave exposure.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Julie Verheyen, Kiani Cuypers, Robby Stoks
Summary: Ecotoxicological studies have made significant progress in assessing the toxicity of pollutants at different temperatures, but they often overlook the interaction patterns between pollutants and temperature. Through laboratory experiments, this study found that the impact of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on Ischnura elegans damselfly larvae varied across different mean temperatures and daily temperature fluctuations. The physiological traits of the larvae were negatively affected by chlorpyrifos at high or extreme high temperatures, with the impact being stronger at lower mean temperatures when daily temperature fluctuations were present. Overall, it highlights the importance of evaluating pesticide toxicity along a temperature gradient and taking a mechanistic approach to understand the combined effects of pollutants and temperature in natural populations.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sarah Jorissen, Lizanne Janssens, Julie Verheyen, Robby Stoks
Summary: In order to improve the ecological risk assessment of aquatic pollutants, it is important to study their effects not only on aquatic larvae, but also on terrestrial adults with a complex life cycle. Through our research on damselflies, we found that exposure to the pesticide DNP and limited food availability had negative effects on the life history, behavior, and physiology of both larvae and adults. The negative effects of DNP were magnified by food limitation, particularly in terms of survival-related traits in the non-exposed adults.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Julie Verheyen, Robby Stoks
Summary: Ecotoxicological studies have traditionally neglected the effects of temperature fluctuations on the toxicity of pollutants. This study investigated the combined effects of pesticide exposure and daily temperature fluctuations on the thermal performance curves of damselfly larvae. The findings suggest that temperature fluctuations can exacerbate the toxic effects of pesticides on survival.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Ruben Van De Walle, Garben Logghe, Nina Haas, Francois Massol, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Dries Bonte
Summary: This study validates the prediction of trophic interactions based on body size ratios in a terrestrial arthropod community and suggests that predator hunting strategy and prey taxonomy can explain additional variation. Feeding trials provide insights into the multiple traits underlying real-life trophic interactions among arthropods.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Nicky Lustenhouwer, Felix Moerman, Florian Altermatt, Ronald D. D. Bassar, Greta Bocedi, Dries Bonte, Sutirth Dey, Emanuel A. A. Fronhofer, Erika Garcez da Rocha, Andrea Giometto, Lesley T. T. Lancaster, Robert B. B. Prather Jr, Marjo Saastamoinen, Justin M. J. Travis, Carla A. A. Urquhart, Christopher Weiss-Lehman, Jennifer L. L. Williams, Luca Borger, David Berger
Summary: Experimental evolution studies can provide valuable proofs of concept that reinforce the links between theoretical predictions and empirical observations, advancing our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of dispersal.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Philippe Lambret, Martin Jeanmougin, Robby Stoks
Summary: Freshwater insects, specifically the Lestes macrostigma damselfly, have declined significantly in recent decades. Understanding its larval ecological requirements is essential for conservation management and habitat restoration.
JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Charlotte Theys, Julie Verheyen, Lizanne Janssens, Nedim Tuezuen, Robby Stoks
Summary: This study investigated the effects of dual stressors on damselfly larvae, focusing on their life history, physiology, and gut microbiome composition. The results showed that both heat waves and pesticides had negative impacts on the larvae's growth and gut microbiome, with different effects observed in two species of damselflies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
T. Parmentier, P. Boeckx, D. Bonte, F. De Laender
Summary: Food chain length is influenced by environmental factors and can be affected by the foraging decisions of the host species. This study investigated the drivers of trophic structure and food chain length in red wood ant nests and found that the host's diet shift significantly impacted the trophic positions of the symbionts and the length of the food chain.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Peihua Zhang, Dries Bonte, Gerlinde De Deyn, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte
Summary: The spatial configuration of belowground resources can affect the community dynamics of soil organisms and resulting plant-soil feedbacks. The spread patterns of nematodes and rotifers were determined by their life-history traits rather than the spatial pattern of the plants. However, more clustered plants resulted in a higher total biomass and reduced growth of subsequent vegetation. These findings have important implications for understanding the impact of spatial configuration changes on long-term vegetation development and succession.