Minsheng You, Fushi Ke, Shijun You, Zhangyan Wu et al.
The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella is a cosmopolitan pest that has evolved resistance to all classes of insecticide, and costs the world economy an estimated US $4-5 billion annually. We analyse patterns of variation among 532 P. xylostella genomes, representing a worldwide sample of 114 popu...
Yanting Chen, Zhaoxia Liu, Jacques Régnière, Liette Vasseur et al.
Understanding the genetic basis of climatic adaptation is essential for predicting species' responses to climate change. However, intraspecific variation of these responses arising from local adaptation remains ambiguous for most species. Here, we analyze genomic data from diamondback moth (Plutella...
Yajun Wang, Yuping Huang, Xuejiao Xu, Zhaoxia Liu et al.
Abstract The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), is an economically important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. This pest is notorious for rapid evolution of the resistance to different classes of insecticides, making it increasingly difficult to control. Genetics‐based control approaches...
Jinying Liao, Yiqun Xue, Guangjing Xiao, Miao Xie et al.
The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is one of the main pests of Brassica crops worldwide. Management of P. xylostella is particularly challenging, as different field populations have readily acquired resistance to a wide range of insecticides, including Bacillus thu...
Fushi Ke, Shijun You, Sumei Huang, Weijun Chen et al.
Invasive species may change the life history strategies, distribution, genetic configuration and trophic interactions of native species. The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L., is an invasive herbivore attacking cultivated and wild brassica plants worldwide. Here we present phylogeographic ana...
Tiansheng Liu, Xue Zhan, Yuan Yu, Shaozhen Wang et al.
Abstract BACKGROUD Insect biogenic amines play important roles in mediating behavioral and physiological processes. They exert their effects by binding to biogenic amine receptors (BARs), which are specific receptor proteins in the G‐protein‐coupled receptor superfamily. BAR genes have been cloned a...
Qian Zhao, Dongna Ma, Yuping Huang, Weiyi He et al.
Transcription factors (TFs), which play a vital role in regulating gene expression, are prevalent in all organisms and characterization of them may provide important clues for understanding regulation in vivo. The present study reports a genome-wide investigation of TFs in the diamondback moth, Plut...
Tianpu Li, Jiao Guo, Gui-Lei Hu, Fang Cao et al.
BACKGROUND: Global climate change significantly impacts ecosystems, particularly through temperature fluctuations that affect insect physiology and behavior. As poikilotherms, insect pests such as the globally devastating diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, are especially vulnerable to risi...
Gábor Pozsgai, Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Markus V. Kohnen, Saïd Amrani et al.
century. Here, we present a unique dataset compiling the biotic interactions between two ecologically and economically important taxa: ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and fungi. The resulting dataset contains the carabid-fungus associations collected from 392 scientific publications, 129 coun...
Gábor Pozsgai, Kris Wyckhuys, Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Liette Vasseur et al.
Abstract Maximising ecosystem service (ES) benefits while minimising ecosystem disservices (EDS) is essential for ecological intensification in annual crop systems. Yet ecosystem disservices are often underreported in the scientific literature, potentially biasing how agroecosystem functioning is un...