Browsing by Author "Medina, Raul F"
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Gale, Cody C (2020-11-10)Facultative fungal endophytes (FFEs) are unspecialized plant-associated fungi capable of colonizing plant tissues without causing symptoms of disease. Studies of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) treated with FFEs suggest ...
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Harrison, Kyle Edward (2017-04-07)Host-associated differentiation (HAD) is a form of ecologically mediated host-race formation between parasite populations. Since HAD can ultimately lead to speciation, it has been proposed as a way to account for the vast ...
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Fontes Puebla, Ana Aurora (2019-12-04)This study addressed whether maize (Zea mays mays L.) defenses against Western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, were mediated by domestication, spread, and modern breeding, three transitions ...
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Bellota Villafuerte, Edwin (2013-01-22)A suite of plants from the maize genus Zea L. (Poaceae) and the specialist herbivore Dalbulus maidis (DeLong and Wolcott, 1923) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) were used to test the hypotheses that anti-herbivore defenses are ...
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Vyavhare, Suhas (2014-08-04)Redbanded stink bug (RBSB), (Piezodorus guildinii Westwood) has recently emerged as an economic pest of soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill in the southern US. Having only recently emerged as a pest in the US, little information ...
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Antwi, Josephine Bema (2015-08-10)Geographic isolation plays a major role in population divergence, but host-plants can also generate selective forces that drive genetic differentiation. Host-plant associations of insects can also be mediated by their ...
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Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P; Castro-Arellano, Ivan; Gordillo-Perez, Guadalupe; Cavazos, Ana L; Vargas-Sandoval, Margarita; Grover, Abha; Torres, Javier; Medina, Raul F; de León, Adalberto A Pérez; Esteve-Gassent, Maria D (Parasites & Vectors, 2014)
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Lenhart, Paul Alvarado (2014-05-07)Understanding how diversity is maintained is a classic question in ecology. A diverse group of organisms can often be found utilizing the same resource. For example, in grasslands there are communities of grasshoppers ...
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Hjelmen, Carl Ernest (2017-07-03)Genome size varies widely across organisms with no tie to organismal complexity. While much of the variation in genome size can be attributed to accumulation of nongenic DNA, the patterns and mechanisms involved are not ...
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Aguero, Carlos M (2020-07-08)Social insects are among some of the most ecologically successful species. However, social living can also carry severe costs, such as an increased risk of disease transmission. In response, social insects have evolved ...
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Adetunji, Shakirat Adeola (2016-02-22)Lyme Disease is caused by the bacterial pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by the tick-vector Ixodes scapularis. It is the most prevalent arthropod-borne disease in the United States. To determine the ...
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Walsh, Elizabeth M. (2019-11-22)Several factors are responsible for the health decline currently faced by managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) worldwide, including pests, pathogens, queen failure, pesticide contamination, habitat fragmentation and nutritional ...
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Dal Molin, Anamaria (2014-12-09)This work focuses on the taxonomy and systematics of parasitic wasps of the family Signiphoridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), a relatively small family of chalcidoid wasps, with 79 described valid species in 4 genera: ...