Browsing by Author "Song, Hojun"
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Raszick, Tyler Jay (2018-11-29)In this dissertation, we used a population genomics approach to improve the management of two insect cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) pests, the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), and the ...
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Sanabria-Urbán, Salomón; Song, Hojun; Oyama, Ken; González-Rodríguez, Antonio; Serrano-Meneses, Martin A.; Cueva del Castillo, Raúl; Kuntner, Matjaž (PloS One, 2015)
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Hoang, Toan (2020-11-25)The Mormon Cricket (Anabrus simplex Haldeman) is a flightless katydid that is native to the United States. During favorable environmental conditions, their populations surge and these insects begin moving together in dense ...
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Dickerson, Amy Jean (2023-06-26)The primary strategy for colony maintenance of the black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens, tends to be a continual release program in which newly emerged adult BSF are consistently introduced into a breeding cage with ...
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Howard, Samuel Zachary (2022-10-10)Clades in which adult insects have substantially diminished their ability to ambulate and instead move almost exclusively via flight are rare in nature. This phenomenon, which we call “extreme volantry,” is explored within ...
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Foquet, Bert (2020-11-19)Locusts are grasshoppers that swarm and exhibit an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity called density-dependent phase polyphenism. They exist in two different phases, solitarious and gregarious, which are found at low ...
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Freitas Spindola, Aline (2019-10-15)The successful commercialization of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), relies on the maintenance of fecund adults. Current mass-rearing protocols has resulted in variable production of fertile eggs. The root ...
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Song, Hojun; Béthoux, Olivier; Shin, Seunggwan; Donath, Alexander; Letsch, Harald; Shanlin, Liu; McKenna, Duane D.; Meng, Guanliang; Misof, Bernhard; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Zhou, Xin; Wipfler, Benjamin; Simon, Sabrina (Nature Communications, 2020-10-02)Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale macroevolutionary study to understand how both hearing and sound production ...
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Shults, Phillip T (2021-07-27)Only a small species of Culicoides midges are pathogen vectors in both managed and natural systems, and as such, proper species delimitation is vital. Before this study, the C. variipennis species complex contained three ...
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Woller, Derek Alexander (2017-12-12)The 27 flightless grasshopper species of the Puer Group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae: Melanoplus) comprise a biological system of fascinating complexity in the southeastern U.S.A. that was heavily influenced by sea ...