Molecular Entomology of Insects of Economic Importance: Advanced Molecular Approaches for Insect Pest Management
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 65
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Interests: voltage gated sodium channels; ryanodine receptors; synthetic pyrethroid insecticides; DDT; neonicotinoid insecticides; fiprol insecticides; pesticide resistance; aphids; whitefly; diamondback moth; brown planthoppers; bed bugs; bee toxicogenomics; bee learning and memory; varroa; insect transgenesis; insect rearing; molecular entomology; agricultural entomology; target site resistance to insecticides; integrated pest management; beneficial insects; ticks; mites
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the study of insects that either benefit or harm humans, domestic animals, or crops, and the practical methods via which they can be either employed for useful applications or prevented from causing harm.
Insects that cause losses, harm, or nuisance are considered pests for a variety of reasons. For crops, this includes direct damage by feeding on plants (e.g., Western corn rootworm, Colorado potato beetle, Grape phylloxera, and locusts), indirect damage through vectoring viruses that cause disease, leading to substantial losses (especially sucking pests, such as aphids, whiteflies, and planthoppers), or through infestations leading to damage to stored products (e.g., beetles and moths). For humans and livestock, insects can be irritants and a nuisance, as well as being the vectors of many serious diseases (e.g., biting midges, flies, fleas, blowflies, and mosquitoes).
Beneficial insects include those that are cultivated for their products and by-products (such as honey, beeswax lac, resins, silk, ink, or dye pigments) and those valued for their pollination services (including bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, ants, and flower beetles) or utility in modern agriculture and horticulture as parasitoids (mainly ichneumonid and chalcid wasps) or predators (including ladybugs, hoverflies, and lacewings) for pest control.
This Special Issue is led by Dr. T. G. Emyr Davies and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Jana Friedrich. Submissions to this Special Issue are open to all researchers studying pest and beneficial insects at the molecular level. Papers and review articles addressing innovations in molecular techniques (such as RNAi, CRISPR, or gene drives), delivery strategies (such as ReMOT control, DIPA-CRISPR, or nanotechnologies), or genomic approaches that can be harnessed for precise genome manipulation or the identification of novel targets in pest management (for example, genome-wide analysis tools, computational biological tools, and structural/functional/comparative genomics) are of particular interest.
Dr. T. G. Emyr Davies
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular entomology
- insect pests
- agricultural pests
- disease vectors
- beneficial insects
- CRISPR
- RNA interference
- genome-wide approaches
- computational biology
- nanotechnology
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