A special issue “Molecular Insights into Insect Physiological Systems” is currently led by Umut in “Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology”. Contributers and title of their ms are:
- Andreas Vilcinskas –“Inhibition of histone acetylation and deacetylation enzymes affects longevity, development and fecundity in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)”
- Umut Toprak-“Comparative fat body proteomics from feeding and hibernating Wheat stink bug, Aelia rostrata (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) adults”
- Russell L. Groves-“Changes in emergence phenology, fatty acid composition,and xenobiotic-metabolizing enzyme expression is associated with increased insecticide resistance in the Colorado Potato Beetle”
- Guy Smagghe-“Protection of rice against Nilaparvata lugens by direct toxicity of sodium selenate”
- Luc Swevers-“Antiviral defense against Cypovirus 1 (Reoviridae) infection in the silkworm, Bombyx mori”
- Umut Toprak-“ A Journey into the World of Insect Lipid Metabolism”
- Miranda M. A. Whitten-“ Optimization of dietary RNA interference delivery to Western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis and Onion thrips Thrips tabaci”
- Giuseppe Saccone-“Targeted mutagenesis through CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complexes in the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae”
- John Vontas-“Limitations of the Drosophila system to effectively study resistance associated target site mutations in arthropods”.
- Heiko Ziebell-“Aphid transmission of nanoviruses”
- Xavier Belles-“Krüppel homolog 1 and E93: the doorkeeper and the key to insect metamorphosis”
- Konstantina T. Tsoumani-“Developing CRISPR-based sex-ratio distorters for the genetic control of fruit fly pests: a how to manual”
- David Heckel-“Recent insights into insect resistance mechanisms against Bacillus thuringiensis toxins”
- Marek Jindra-“The juvenile hormone receptor as a target of juvenoid ‘insect growth regulators’
- Kostas Mathiopoulos-“Knocking down the sex peptide receptor by bacterial feeding results in reduced oviposition rate in olive flies”
