▪ Abstract Baculoviruses occur widely among Lepidoptera, and in some species of forest and
agricultural insects, they cause epizootics in outbreak populations. Here we review recent …

Baculoviruses are double‐stranded DNA viruses which are highly selective for several
insect groups. They are valuable natural control agents, but their utility in many agricultural …

The economic damage caused by episodic outbreaks of forest-defoliating insects has
spurred much research, yet why such outbreaks occur remains unclear. Theoretical …

For 20 years, ecologists have been gathering evidence in support of the hypothesis that
plants can use insect natural enemies such as predators and parasitoids as bodyguards to …

The underlying thesis of this paper is that nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV), like their insect
hosts, exist as populations that can be considered in an ecological context. Population …

Models of outbreaks in forest-defoliating insects are typically built from a priori
considerations and tested only with long time series of abundances. We instead present a …

Voltage-gated sodium channels are a major target for toxins and insecticides due to their
central role in excitability, but due to the conservation of these channels in Animalia most …

Abstract Knowledge of the mechanisms of pathogen persistence in relation to fluctuations in
host density is crucial to our understanding of disease dynamics. In the case of insect …

Baculoviridae is a family of insect-specific DNA viruses that have been used as biological
control agents for insect pest control. In most cases these baculovirus control agents are …

While rising global temperatures are increasingly affecting both species and their biotic
interactions, the debate about whether global warming will increase or decrease disease …