Publications

Plants have evolved complex bouquets of specialized natural products that are utilized in medicine, agriculture, and industry. …

The evolution of resistance to insecticides poses a significant threat to pest management programs. Understanding the molecular …

The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta, is an invasive crop pest that has evolved resistance to many of the insecticides used for its …

The pollen beetle, Brassicogethes aeneus, is an economically important pest of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) throughout Europe. The …

In some aphid species, intraspecific variation in body colour is caused by differential carotenoid content whilst green aphids contain …

The Neotropical brown stink bug, Euschistus heros, is a major pest of soybean in South America. The importance of E. heros as a pest …

With an ever-increasing amount of (meta)genomic data being deposited in sequence databases, (meta)genome mining for natural product …

Two pasteurization-resistant strains, VHT1 and VHT2, of environmental, viable but nonculturable, pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus …

With the emergence of large amounts of omics data, computational approaches for the identification of plant natural product …

Milkweed butterflies in the genus Danaus are studied in a diverse range of research fields including the neurobiology of migration, …

The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, is a globally distributed highly damaging crop pest. This species has demonstrated an …

The aphid Myzus persicae is a destructive agricultural pest that displays an exceptional ability to develop resistance to both natural …

Host shifts can lead to ecological speciation and the emergence of new pests and pathogens. However, the mutational events that …

Meadow brown butterflies (Maniola jurtina) on the Isles of Scilly represent an ideal model in which to dissect the links between …

Neo-sex chromosomes are found in many taxa, but the forces driving their emergence and spread are poorly understood. The …

The glasshouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, is a damaging crop pest and an invasive generalist capable of feeding on a broad …

Recent research has shown that several managed bee species have specific P450 enzymes that are preadapted to confer intrinsic tolerance …

Terpene synthases are widely distributed among microorganisms and have been mainly studied in members of the genus Streptomyces. …

The impact of pesticides on the health of bee pollinators is determined in part by the capacity of bee detoxification systems to …

Mutator-like elements (MULEs) are a significant superfamily of DNA transposons on account of their (i) great transpositional activity …

The impact of neonicotinoid insecticides on the health of bee pollinators is a topic of intensive research and considerable current …

Gene duplication is a major source of genetic variation that has been shown to underpin the evolution of a wide range of adaptive …

Many non-model organisms lack reference genomes and the sequencing and de novo assembly of an organisms transcriptome is an affordable …

The development of insecticide resistance in insect pests of crops is a growing threat to sustainable food production, and strategies …

One of the most crucial characteristics of day-to-day laboratory information management is the collection, storage and retrieval of …

Our understanding of the composition of diatom communities and their response to environmental changes is currently limited by …

A few diatom species produce toxins that affect human and animal health. Among these, members of the Pseudo-nitzschia genus were the …

Halorhodospira halochloris is an extremely halophilic bacterium isolated from hypersaline Wadi Nantrun lakes in Egypt. Here we report …