Understanding how inbreeding affects the population fitness is a major issue in insect ecology.Despite being a worldwide pest of many economically important
The booklice,or named psocids,which are belonged to the genus Liposcelis(Psocoptera: Troctomorpha),are major pests of stored grain and commonly occur on a w
Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis(Bt)toxins has been increasingly reported in field populations of insect pests.For resistance management in agriculture,
Insect prophenoloxidase(PPO)is an essential innate immunity protein to induce pathogen into melanization.In Bombyx mori,pro-phenoloxidase-activating enzyme(
It has been estimated that over one million people worldwide die from mosquito transmitted diseases every year.Control of mosquitoes largely depends on the
To optimize the expression of cry genes in a Bacillus thuringiensis sigK mutant failing in crystal releasing,the transcriptional activity of the cry promote