Volume 110, Issue 3, July 2012 CONTENTS Special Section: SIP Founders’ Lecture and Symposium Symposium Guest Editors: Juan Ferre and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes Abstracted/indexed in EMBiology. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SciVerse Scopusâ . Full text available on SciVerse ScienceDirectâ . Founders’ Lecture Elizabeth W. Davidson.
John D. Briggs – The spirit of SIP .................................................................................................... 277
SIP Symposium Articles on Resistance to Bt Crops Sharon Downes, Rod Mahon. Evolution, ecology and management of resistance in Helicoverpa spp. to Bt cotton in Australia ................................................................................................................................................................................ 281 Aaron J. Gassmann. Field-evolved resistance to Bt maize by western corn rootworm: Predictions from the laboratory and effects in the field......................................................................................................................................................... 287 Nicholas P. Storer, Mary E. Kubiszak, J. Ed King, Gary D. Thompson, Antonio Cesar Santos. Status of resistance to Bt maize in Spodoptera frugiperda: Lessons from Puerto Rico ............................................................................................. 294 Bruce E. Tabashnik, Kongming Wu, Yidong Wu. Early detection of field-evolved resistance to Bt cotton in China: Cotton bollworm and pink bollworm ................................................................................................................................ 301 Regular Articles N. Carrasco, A. Villalba, K.B. Andree, M.Y. Engelsma, B. Lacuesta, A. Ramilo, I. Gairín, M.D. Furones. Bonamia exitiosa (Haplosporidia) observed infecting the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis cultured on the Spanish Mediterranean coast....................................................................................................................................................................................... 307 Ernesto Guzman-Novoa, Berna Emsen, Peter Unger, Laura G. Espinosa-Montaño, Tatiana Petukhova. Genotypic variability and relationships between mite infestation levels, mite damage, grooming intensity, and removal of Varroa destructor mites in selected strains of worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) ................................................... 314 Jorge Cáceres-Martínez, Mauricio García Ortega, Rebeca Vásquez-Yeomans, Teresa de Jesús Pineda García, Nancy A. Stokes, Ryan B. Carnegie. Natural and cultured populations of the mangrove oyster Saccostrea palmula from Sinaloa, Mexico, infected by Perkinsus marinus....................................................................................................... 321 Baris Gulcu, Selcuk Hazir, Harry K. Kaya. Scavenger deterrent factor (SDF) from symbiotic bacteria of entomopathogenic nematodes .................................................................................................................................................................. 326 Maissa Chakroun, Yolanda Bel, Silvia Caccia, Lobna Abdelkefi-Mesrati, Baltasar Escriche, Juan Ferré. Susceptibility of Spodoptera frugiperda and S. exigua to Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa insecticidal protein............................................ 334 K.S. Bateman, I. Tew, C. French, R.J. Hicks, P. Martin, J. Munro, G.D. Stentiford. Susceptibility to infection and pathogenicity of White Spot Disease (WSD) in non-model crustacean host taxa from temperate regions.............. 340 Douglas W. Dingman. Paenibacillus larvae 16S–23S rDNA intergenic transcribed spacer (ITS) regions: DNA fingerprinting and characterization ............................................................................................................................................. 352 Ke Wu, Marjorie A. Hoy. Cardinium is associated with reproductive incompatibility in the predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis (Acari: Phytoseiidae)........................................................................................................................................ 359 Sam Kyu Kim, Yolanda Flores-Lara, S. Patricia Stock. Morphology and ultrastructure of the bacterial receptacle in Steinernema nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) ................................................................................................. 366
Carlos Espinel-Correal, Miguel López-Ferber, Jean-Louis Zeddam, Laura Villamizar, Juliana Gómez, Alba Marina Cotes, Xavier Léry. Experimental mixtures of Phthorimaea operculella granulovirus isolates provide high biological efficacy on both Phthorimaea operculella and Tecia solanivora (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) ......................................... 375 Jung-A Park, Yonggyun Kim. Eicosanoid biosynthesis is activated via Toll, but not Imd signal pathway in response to fungal infection .................................................................................................................................................................... 382 Md. Ramjan Ali, Yonggyun Kim. A novel polydnaviral gene family, BEN, and its immunosuppressive function in larvae of Plutella xylostella parasitized by Cotesia plutellae ............................................................................................. 389 Short Communications Erick Baqueiro Cardenas, Jorge Montero, Liliane Frenkiel, Dalila Aldana Aranda. Attenuated reproduction of Strombus gigas by an Apicomplexa: Emeriidae-like parasite in the digestive gland .................................................................... 398 Gabriel Moura Mascarin, Vanessa da Silveira Duarte, Marcelo Mendes Brandão, Ítalo Delalibera Jr. Natural occurrence of Zoophthora radicans (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae) on Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae), an invasive pest recently found in Brazil............................................................... 401 María Laura Susevich, Gerardo Aníbal Marti, María Soledad Serena, María Gabriela Echeverría. New Triatoma virus hosts in wild habitats of Argentina.................................................................................................................................... 405 Brenna E. Traver, Richard D. Fell.
Low natural levels of Nosema ceranae in Apis mellifera queens .................................. 408
Pedro M. Costa, Maria H. Costa. Development and application of a novel histological multichrome technique for clam histopathology ...................................................................................................................................................................... 411