Global trends in pesticides: A looming threat and viable alternatives

A Sharma, A Shukla, K Attri, M Kumar, P Kumar… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pesticides are widely used chemical compounds in agriculture to destroy insects, pests and
weeds. In modern era, they form an indispensable part of agricultural and health practices …

Making sense of genomic islands of differentiation in light of speciation

JBW Wolf, H Ellegren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
As populations diverge, genetic differences accumulate across the genome. Spurred by
rapid developments in sequencing technology, genome-wide population surveys of natural …

Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

BJ Matthews, O Dudchenko, SB Kingan, S Koren… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infect more than 400 million people each year with
dangerous viral pathogens including dengue, yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya. Progress …

Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector Aedes aegypti

M Li, T Yang, NP Kandul, M Bui, S Gamez, R Raban… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Aedes aegypti is the principal mosquito vector for many arboviruses that increasingly infect
millions of people every year. With an escalating burden of infections and the relative failure …

[图书][B] Insect physiology and biochemistry

JL Nation Sr - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Insecticide resistance and management strategies in urban ecosystems

F Zhu, L Lavine, S O'Neal, M Lavine, C Foss, D Walsh - Insects, 2016 - mdpi.com
The increased urbanization of a growing global population makes imperative the
development of sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for urban pest …

The neurotranscriptome of the Aedes aegypti mosquito

BJ Matthews, CS McBride, M DeGennaro, O Despo… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background A complete genome sequence and the advent of genome editing open up non-
traditional model organisms to mechanistic genetic studies. The mosquito Aedes aegypti is …

Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, Aedes aegypti

M Li, M Bui, T Yang, CS Bowman… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The development of CRISPR/Cas9 technologies has dramatically increased the accessibility
and efficiency of genome editing in many organisms. In general, in vivo germline expression …

A CRISPR toolbox to study virus–host interactions

AS Puschnik, K Majzoub, YS Ooi… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Viruses depend on their hosts to complete their replication cycles; they exploit cellular
receptors for entry and hijack cellular functions to replicate their genome, assemble progeny …

Genome sequence of the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, reveals insights into its biology, genetics, and evolution

XG Chen, X Jiang, J Gu, M Xu, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is a highly successful invasive species that
transmits a number of human viral diseases, including dengue and Chikungunya fevers …