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- SSHICESecrets of Success: How Insects Conquered Earth!
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
- IBIIIntroductory Biology II
- MISMethods in Insect Science
Grants
- Symbiont Transmission Constraints and Consequences in the Orchard Bug Pest Leptoglossus Zonatus
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$646.2K
Active - Nematicidal and Phytotoxic Efficacy of Photorhabdus Metabolites for Control of Plant Parasites
Key Personnel (KP)
2022
$225.0K
Active - Collaborative Research: The Saboteur's Tools: Mechanisms for Host Reproductive Manipulation by the Bacterial Arthropod Endosymbiont Cardinium Hertigii
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$375.0K
Active - Does An Environmentally-Acquired Beneficial Symbiont Shape The Biology Of A Leaf-Footed Bug Pest?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$455.0K
Active - The Role of Mircoorganisms on Beetle Wings
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$90.0K
- Genetic & Cytogenetic Bases of Cardinium-Caused Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Arthropods
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$520.0K
- Symbiocontrol- The role of bacterial symbiont Cardinium in shaping the ecology and evolution of an insect parasitoid wasp: fundamental studies...
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$11.3K
- The cause and consequences of remarkable fitness benefits conferred on the sweetpotato whitefly by its bacterial endosymbiont, Rickettsia
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$445.3K
- Dissertation Research: Inducible egg stacking defends against parasitism in a seed beetle
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$8.2K
- Understanding the Breakneck Spread of a Rickettsia Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly: Mechanisms and Conditional Effects
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$720.5K
News
- 6 From UA Recognized in New Class of Fellows by AAAS
2017
- Russian Dolls of the Bug World
2012
- This Beetle Uses Eggs as Shields Against Wasps
2011
- Aphids Saved From Gruesome Death by Virus-Infected Bacteria
2009
- The Right Hitchhiker Can Save an Aphid's Life
2005
- Awards for Excellence 2004: Suzanne Kelly
2004
- Ecologists Reveal War Triangle Among Aphids, Wasps and Bacteria
2002
Publications (132)
- One of two co-infecting Cardinium symbiont strains causes cytoplasmic incompatibility and localizes outside of sperm cells in Encarsia partenopea
2022
- Sex-based de novo transcriptome assemblies of the parasitoid wasp Encarsia suzannae, a host of the manipulative heritable symbiont Cardinium hertigii
2022
- Development of common leaf-footed bug pests depends on the presence and identity of their environmentally-acquired symbionts.
2022
- Hiding in plain sight: Cryptic enemies are found on cochineal (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae), a scale insect of economic and cultural significance
2022
- Quality over quantity: unraveling the contributions to cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by two coinfecting Cardinium symbionts
2022
- Cryptic enemies of the economically- and culturally-important scale insect, cochineal (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae)
2021
- Cardinium localization during its parasitoid wasp host’s development provides insights into cytoplasmic incompatibility.
2020
- Cardinium Localization During Its Parasitoid Wasp Host’s Development Provides Insights Into Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
2020
- Continent-scale sampling reveals fine-scale turnover in a beneficial bug symbiont
2020
- The saboteur's tools: Common mechanistic themes across manipulative symbioses
2020
- What goes up might come down: the spectacular spread of an endosymbiont is followed by its decline a decade later
2020
- Sex ratios in haplodiploid herbivores (Aleyrodidae and Thysanoptera): A review and tools for study.
2019
- Geography of an environmentally-acquired symbiosis: Is the bug-Burkholderia mutualism spatially structured?
2019
- Development of a multi-locus sequence typing system helps reveal the evolution of Cardinium hertigii, a reproductive manipulator of insects.
2019
- Exposure to opposing temperature regimes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-caused cytoplasmic incompatibility.
2019
- Exposure to opposing temperature extremes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic …
2019
- What goes up might come down: The spectacular spread of an endosymbiont is followed by its decline a decade later.
2019
- Determining the egg fertilization rate of Bemisia tabaci using a cytogenetic technique
2019
- Sex ratios in the haplodiploid herbivores, Aleyrodidae and Thysanoptera: A review and tools for study
2019
- Program Symposium: Insect Microbiomes: Traversing Disciplines to Understand and Manage Helpful and Harmful Hexapods
2018
- Developing the bug-Burkholderia symbiosis as a model for studying environmental symbiont acquisition
2018
- Comparative genomics of Cardinium reveals new candidates for genes underlying Cardinium-induced reproductive manipulations.
2018
- The communication that divides us
2018
- Enrichment of low-density symbionts from minute insects
2018
- Enrichment of low-density symbiont DNA from minute insects.
2018
- Do environmentally-acquired Burkholderia symbionts serve as a reservoir of local adaptations for their insect hosts?
2017
- Bacterial communities in cochineal insect species of Arizona
2017
- Revision of the Encarsia pergandiella species complex (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whitefly pests.
2017
- Does the endosymbiont Rickettsia modify the feeding behavior of its insect host?
2017
- Transcriptome sequencing suggests convergent evolution of cytoplasmic incompatibility and host cell interaction in unrelated arthropod symbionts.
2017
- Reproductive interference and fecundity affect competitive interactions of sibling species with low mating barriers: Experimental and theoretical evidence
2017
- A revision of the Encarsia pergandiella species complex (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) shows cryptic diversity in parasitoids of whitefly pests
2017
- Reproductive interference, hybrid sterility and fecundity affect competitive interactions of sibling species with low mating barriers: Experimental and theoretical evidence.
2017
- A comparative genomic approach to understanding the genes underlying symbiont-induced reproductive manipulations in Cardinium hertigii.
2017
- Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Novel Candidate Genes for Cardinium hertigii-Caused Cytoplasmic Incompatibility and Host-Cell Interaction
2017
- Host nuclear genotype influences phenotype of a conditional mutualist symbiont
2017
- Cytological analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium suggests convergent evolution with its distant cousin Wolbachia.
2017
- Changing fitness effects of a transformational bacterial endosymbiont on its invasive whitefly host
2017
- Conditional fitness benefits of the Rickettsia bacterial symbiont in an insect pest
2016
- Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story
2016
- “Darwin's corollary” and cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium may contribute to speciation in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
2016
- Diversity of symbiotic bacteria associated with Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in cassava mosaic disease pandemic areas of Tanzania
2015
- Dynamics of the Endosymbiont Rickettsia in an Insect Pest
2015
- Bacterial endosymbionts in field-collected samples of Trialeurodes sp. nr. abutiloneus (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
2014
- The facultative symbiont Rickettsia protects an invasive whitefly against entomopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae strains
2014
- Factors Affecting the Strength of Cardinium-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Parasitic Wasp Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
2014
- Egg and time limitation mediate an egg protection strategy
2014
- Symbiont infection affects whitefly dynamics in the field
2014
- Characteristics, Phenotype, and Transmission of Wolbachia in the Sweet Potato Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), and Its Parasitoid Eretmocerus sp. nr …
2014
- Delay, avoidance and protection in oviposition behaviour in response to fine-scale variation in egg parasitism risk
2013
- Comparative Genomics Suggests an Independent Origin of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii
2012
- Mothers modify eggs into shields to protect offspring from parasitism
2012
- Comparative Genomics Suggests an Independent Origin of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
2012
- Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids
2012
- Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated
2012
- Rickettsia ‘In’ and ‘Out’: Two Different Localization Patterns of a Bacterial Symbiont in the Same Insect Species
2011
- Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium
2011
- Rapid spread of a bacterial symbiont in an invasive whitefly is driven by fitness benefits and female bias
2011
- Parasitoid bacterial symbionts as markers of within‐host competitive outcomes: superparasitoid advantage and sex ratio bias
2011
- Superinfection of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia is not additive in Orius strigicollis (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae)
2011
- Population dynamics and rapid spread of Cardinium, a bacterial endosymbiont causing cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
2010
- Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects
2010
- OOS 49-6: Dramatic invasion of Rickettsia in a whitefly population in the Southwestern United States
2010
- Assessments of Fitness Effects by the Facultative Symbiont Rickettsia in the Sweetpotato Whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
2009
- Cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia inaron: disentangling the roles of Cardinium and Wolbachia symbionts
2009
- Almost there: transmission routes of bacterial symbionts between trophic levels
2009
- Inherited fungal and bacterial endosymbionts of a parasitic wasp and its cockroach host
2009
- Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in an asexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterial symbiont Cardinium
2009
- Negative fitness consequences and transmission dynamics of a heritable fungal symbiont of a parasitic wasp
2009
- Bacteriophages encode factors required for protection in a symbiotic mutualism
2009
- OOS 31-4: Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids
2009
- Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids
2008
- Population and evolutionary genetics-Population biology of cytoplasmic incompatibility: Maintenance and spread of Cardinium symbionts in a parasitic wasp
2008
- Population biology of cytoplasmic incompatibility: maintenance and spread of Cardinium symbionts in a parasitic wasp
2008
- Inherited bacterial symbionts influence host selection behavior of a whitefly parasitoid
2007
- Heterospecific ovicide influences the outcome of competition between two endoparasitoids, Encarsia formosa and Encarsia luteola
2007
- Cytological evidence for two different mechanisms of thelytokous parthenogenesis in Encarsia parasitoids harbouring Wolbachia or Cardinium bacteria
2007
- Manipulation of oviposition choice of the parasitoid wasp, Encarsia pergandiella, by the endosymbiotic bacterium Cardinium
2007
- The mechanism of parthenogenesis-induction by the bacterial endosymbiont Cardinium suggests independent origins from Wolbachia
2006
- Inherited Bacteroidetes symbionts in arthropods
2006
- Thank you to Charu
2006
- The emerging diversity of Rickettsia
2006
- Cytoplasmic incompatibility and multiple symbiont infection in the ash whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia inaron
2006
- Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype
2005
- Reconsideration of the role of yeasts associated with Chrysoperla green lacewings
2005
- Characterization of a ‘Bacteroidetes’ symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): proposal of ‘Candidatus Cardinium hertigii’
2004
- Costs and benefits of a superinfection of facultative symbionts in aphids
2004
- Cardinium, a newly discovered symbiont in the Bacteroidetes, causes cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia parasitoids
2004
- NEW TAXA-Other Bacteria-Characterization of a'Bacteroidetes' symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): Proposal of'Candidatus Cardinium hertigii'
2004
- A bacterial symbiont in the Bacteroidetes induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitoid wasp Encarsia pergandiella
2003
- Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps
2003
- Bacterial symbionts of pea aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps
2003
- Does an autoparasitoid disrupt host suppression provided by a primary parasitoid?
2002
- Ovipositional preference and larval–early adult performance of two generalist lacewing predators of aphids in pecans
2002
- Developmental rates of two congeneric parasitoids, Encarsia formosa and E. pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), utilizing different egg provisioning strategies
2002
- Egg size, intrinsic competition, and lethal interference in the parasitoids Encarsia pergandiella and Encarsia formosa
2002
- Sex ratios of parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual life-histories
2002
- Yeast symbionts in the green lacewing, Chrysoperla sp.(Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)
2002
- Alleyne, Marianne, 116 Alomar, Oscar, 123 Andorno, A., 259
2002
- Distribution and phenotypic effects of a Cytophaga-relative bacterial symbiont in Encarsia parasitoids
2002
- Lethal interference competition in the whitefly parasitoids Eretmocerus eremicus and Encarsia sophia
2001
- Variation in the outcome of competition between two aphid species on pecan: plants matter more than predators
2001
- A newly discovered bacterium associated with parthenogenesis and a change in host selection behavior in parasitoid wasps
2001
- Evolution and behavioral ecology of heteronomous aphelinid parasitoids
2001
- Reproductive phenotypes of Encarsia parasitoids infected with a newly-discovered bacterial symbiont
2001
- Ovicide in the whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia formosa
2000
- Fringe benefits in arthropods
2000
- Population Dynamics of Pecan Aphids and Their Green Lacewing Predators in Insecticide-Free Pecans
2000
- The influence of parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia on the oviposition behaviour and sex-specific developmental requirements of autoparasitoid wasps.
1999
- Hyperparasitism by an exotic autoparasitoid: secondary host selection and the window of vulnerability of conspecific and native heterospecific hosts
1998
- Divergent Host Relationships of Males and Females in the Parasitoid Encarsia porteri (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
1996
- Courtship behavior, reproductive relationships, and allozyme patterns of three North American populations of Eretmocerus nr. californicus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae …
1996
- Secondary host choice by the autoparasitoid Encarsia pergandiella
1996
- The population dynamics of the white peach scale and its parasitoids in a mulberry orchard in Campania, Italy
1995
- Heterotrophic parasitoids revisited: preliminary observations on Encarsia porteri (Encarsia porteri (Mercet)(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
1995
- Ecological determinants of sex allocation in an autoparasitoid wasp
1995
- Heterotrophic parasitoids revisited: preliminary observations on Encarsia porteri (Mercet)(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae).
1995
- Heteronomous hyperparasitoids, sex ratios and adaptations: a reply
1994
- Object-oriented simulation modeling in the biological in the biological control of Bemisia tabaci
1994
- Abstracts of Papers Presented at The International Workshop onBemisia Spp. October 3–7, 1994 Shoresh Hotel and Conference Center, Shoresh, Israel
1994
- Origin of males by genome loss in an autoparasitoid wasp
1993
- Sex allocation in a field population of an autoparasitoid
1993
- Sex ratios of heteronomous hyperparasitoids: adaptive or non-adaptive?
1992
- Male production induced by antibiotic treatment inEncarsia formosa (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), an asexual species
1992
- Status of the biological control of pests
1992
- Sex ratio in an autoparasitoid, Encarsia pergandiella Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
1991
- ENVIRONMENT UPDATE
1991
- Sex allocation and egg distribution of an autoparasitoid, Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
1989
- Suitability of stages of femaleEncarsia pergandiella [Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae] for development of conspecific male hyperprasites
1989
- Suitability of stages of female Encarsia pergandiella (Hym: Aphelinidae) for development of conspecific male hyperparasites
1989
- Benefits and risks of genetic engineering in agriculture
1989
- Sex ratio, egg distribution, and stage-specific development of an autoparasitoid, Encarsia pergandiella Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
1987