The complexity of global change and its effects on insects

LH Yang, EG Postema, TE Hayes, MK Lippey… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Global change includes multiple overlapping and interacting drivers.•These
drivers can have complex and counterintuitive effects on insects.•Global change reorganizes …

Modality-specific impairment of learning by a neonicotinoid pesticide

F Muth, JS Francis, AS Leonard - Biology letters, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neonicotinoid pesticides can impair bees' ability to learn and remember information about
flowers, critical for effective foraging. Although these effects on cognition may contribute to …

Chronic exposure of bumblebees to neonicotinoid imidacloprid suppresses the entire mevalonate pathway and fatty acid synthesis

T Erban, B Sopko, P Talacko, K Harant, K Kadlikova… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Determining the side effects of pesticides on pollinators is an important topic due to the
increasing loss of pollinators. We aimed to determine the effects of chronic sublethal …

A neonicotinoid pesticide alters Drosophila olfactory processing

AR Tatarko, AS Leonard, D Mathew - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Neonicotinoid pesticides are well-known for their sublethal effects on insect behavior and
physiology. Recent work suggests neonicotinoids can impair insect olfactory processing …

Binding properties to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors can explain differential toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides in Chironomidae

EM Maloney, E Taillebois, N Gilles, CA Morrissey… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
Neonicotinoids are neuroactive insecticides commonly detected in freshwater ecosystems.
Recent studies have indicated that these compounds are markedly toxic to Chironomidae, a …

[HTML][HTML] A pilot in vivo evaluation of Sb (III) and Sb (V) genotoxicity using comet assay and micronucleus test on the freshwater fish, silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus …

MO Obiakor, M Tighe, L Pereg, W Maher… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antimony (Sb) is a priority water pollutant known to be toxic to aquatic organisms at high
concentrations. Environmental exposure, however, occurs most often at sub-lethal …

Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations

CA Sánchez, S Altizer, RJ Hall - Biology Letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic landscape modification such as urbanization can expose wildlife to toxicants,
with profound behavioural and health effects. Toxicant exposure can alter the local …

Neonicotinoid and sulfoximine pesticides differentially impair insect escape behavior and motion detection

RH Parkinson, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Insect nervous systems offer unique advantages for studying interactions between sensory
systems and behavior, given their complexity with high tractability. By examining the neural …

Neural conduction, visual motion detection, and insect flight behaviour are disrupted by low doses of imidacloprid and its metabolites

RH Parkinson, JR Gray - Neurotoxicology, 2019 - Elsevier
While neonicotinoid insecticides impair visually guided behaviours, the effects of their
metabolites are unknown and measurements of environmental concentrations of …

Novel multiple access protocols against Q-learning-based tunnel monitoring using flying ad hoc networks

BH Awaji, MM Kamruzzaman, A Althuniabt, I Aqeel… - Wireless …, 2024 - Springer
Some protocols operated in the MAC layer and the open-source interconnections model to
share the packet delivery and the network channel to deliver the packet is done …