The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), which periodically erupted in
tropical Asian rice before the 1960s, became a major threat after farmers adopted green …

▪ Abstract Studies of dispersal polymorphism in insects have played a pivotal role in
advancing our understanding of population dynamics, life history evolution, and the …

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects,
examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns …

Many insects are capable of developing into either long-winged or short-winged (or
wingless) morphs, which enables them to rapidly match heterogeneous environments. Thus …

The brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens is one of the most destructive insect pests in
Asia, demonstrating high fertility and causing huge crop losses by sucking sap of rice as well …

We investigated the selective pressures associated with the possession of wings and
migration in wing-dimorphic planthoppers (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Both migratory …

In urban settings, the armored scale insect Pseudaulacaspis pentagona infests mulberry
trees in disturbed landscape habitats (roadsides, parking lots) but not trees in forested …

Wing dimorphism occurs commonly among many species of insects. This dimorphism is
hypothesized to be maintained by a trade-off between the costs of being macropterous …

Comparative genomics from mitochondria, plastids, and mutualistic endosymbiotic bacteria
has shown that the stable establishment of a bacterium in a host cell results in genome …

Polyphenism is a successful strategy adopted by organisms to adapt to environmental
changes. Brown planthoppers (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens) develop two wing phenotypes …