Characterisation and localisation of plant metabolites involved in pharmacophagy in the turnip sawfly

L Brueggemann, LJ Tewes, C Müller - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Several herbivorous insects consume certain metabolites from plants for other purposes
than nutrition, such as defence. Adults of the turnip sawfly, Athalia rosae take up specific …

Chemical defense acquired via pharmacophagy can lead to protection from predation for conspecifics in a sawfly

P Singh, N Grone, LJ Tewes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chemical defense is a widespread anti-predator strategy exhibited by organisms, with
individuals either synthesizing or extrinsically acquiring defensive chemicals. In some …

Plant metabolites modulate social networks and lifespan in a sawfly

P Singh, L Brueggemann, S Janz, Y Saidi… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Social interactions influence disease spread, information flow and resource allocation
across species, yet heterogeneity in social interaction frequency and its fitness …

Intergenerational effects of early-life starvation on life history, consumption, and transcriptome of a holometabolous insect

SC Paul, P Singh, AB Dennis… - The American …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Intergenerational effects, also known as parental effects in which the offspring phenotype is
influenced by the parental phenotype, can occur in response to factors that occur not only in …

Efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae and (E)–2–hexenal combination using autodissemination technology for the management of the adult greenhouse whitefly …

VM Paradza, FM Khamis, AA Yusuf… - Frontiers in Insect …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The efficiency of an autodissemination technique in controlling adult whiteflies, Trialeurodes
vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on tomato, Solunum lycopersicum was …