Volume 143, February 2017 CONTENTS Abstracted/indexed in EMBiology. Also covered in the abstract and citation database Scopus® . Full text available on ScienceDirect® .
Regular Articles X.Y. Wang, L.X. Du, C.X. Liu, L. Gong, L.Z. Han, Y.F. Peng. RNAi in the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis, establishes a functional role for aminopeptidase N in Cry1Ab intoxication.....................................................................................
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Patricia A. O’Leary, Jeffrey D. Shields. Fiddler crabs (Uca spp.) as model hosts for laboratory infections of Hematodinium perezi ............................................................................................................................................................
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Yixin H. Ye, Andrei Seleznev, Heather A. Flores, Megan Woolfit, Elizabeth A. McGraw. Gut microbiota in Drosophila melanogaster interacts with Wolbachia but does not contribute to Wolbachia-mediated antiviral protection.........
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Yuuki Hayakawa, Daiki Kato, Katsumi Kamiya, Chieka Minakuchi, Ken Miura. Chitin synthase 1 gene is crucial to antifungal host defense of the model beetle, Tribolium castaneum................................................................................
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Ramalingam Karthik Raja, Dilipkumar Aiswarya, Baris Gulcu, Manickam Raja, Pachiappan Perumal, Sivaperumal Sivaramakrishnan, Harry K. Kaya, Selcuk Hazir. Response of three cyprinid fish species to the Scavenger Deterrent Factor produced by the mutualistic bacteria associated with entomopathogenic nematodes
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Angel Llopis-Giménez, Rosa Maria González, Anabel Millán-Leiva, Marta Catalá, Elena Llacer, Alberto Urbaneja, Salvador Herrero. Novel RNA viruses producing simultaneous covert infections in Ceratitis capitata. Correlations between viral titers and host fitness, and implications for SIT programs.....................................................................
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Hannah J. Broadley, Matthew Boucher, John P. Burand, Joseph S. Elkinton. The phylogenetic relationship and cross-infection of nucleopolyhedroviruses between the invasive winter moth (Operophtera brumata) and its native congener, Bruce spanworm (O. bruceata) ..............................................................................................................
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Regina G. Kleespies, Young Woon Lim, Cezary Tkaczuk, Marta Wrzosek, Bernhardt M. Steinwender, Rudolf Wegensteiner. Metschnikowia cf. typographi and other pathogens from the bark beetle Ips sexdentatus – Prevalence, histological and ultrastructural evidence, and molecular characterization .................................................
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Trevor A. Jackson. Dr. Alois Huger – Laying the foundations for an integrated insect pathology ...................................
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George Kyei-Poku, Yuliya Y. Sokolova. The microsporidium Nosema disstriae (Thomson 1959): Fine structure and phylogenetic position within the N. bombycis clade ........................................................................................................
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Joanna Małagocka, Annette Bruun Jensen, Jørgen Eilenberg. Pandora formicae, a specialist ant pathogenic fungus: New insights into biology and taxonomy ......................................................................................................................... 108 Chetana Aggarwal, Sangeeta Paul, Vishwas Tripathi, Bishwajeet Paul, Md. Aslam Khan. Characterization of putative virulence factors of Serratia marcescens strain SEN for pathogenesis in Spodoptera litura.......................................... 115 Jamie Bojko, Fraser Clark, David Bass, Alison M. Dunn, Sarah Stewart-Clark, Paul D. Stebbing, Grant D. Stentiford. Parahepatospora carcini n. gen., n. sp., a parasite of invasive Carcinus maenas with intermediate features of sporogony between the Enterocytozoon clade and other microsporidia ............................. 124 Continued
Short Communications Sebastián Díaz, Sarah de Souza Urbano, Lílian Caesar, Betina Blochtein, Aroni Sattler, Valmir Zuge, Karen Luisa Haag. Report on the microbiota of Melipona quadrifasciata affected by a recurrent disease ..............
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Chang-Ming Bai, Qing-Chen Wang, Benjamin Morga, Jie Shi, Chong-Ming Wang. Experimental infection of adult Scapharca broughtonii with Ostreid herpesvirus SB strain ..............................................................................................
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Sergey A. Timofeev, Igor V. Senderskiy, Alexander A. Tsarev, Yuri S. Tokarev, Viacheslav V. Dolgikh. Heterologous expression of Paranosema (Antonospora) locustae hexokinase in lepidopteran, Sf9, cells is followed by accumulation of the microsporidian protein in insect cell nuclei.................................................................................. 104