Search Results - "Hahn, Daniel A"
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Energetics of Insect Diapause
Published in Annual review of entomology (07-01-2011)“…Managing metabolic resources is critical for insects during diapause when food sources are limited or unavailable. Insects accumulate reserves prior to…”
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Constraints, independence, and evolution of thermal plasticity: Probing genetic architecture of long- and short-term thermal acclimation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-04-2015)“…Significance Mitigating thermal stress through evolutionary adaptation or physiological plasticity is critical for species’ persistence in changing climates…”
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Keeping time without a spine: what can the insect clock teach us about seasonal adaptation?
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-11-2017)“…Seasonal change in daylength (photoperiod) is widely used by insects to regulate temporal patterns of development and behaviour, including the timing of…”
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Mechanisms of suspended animation are revealed by transcript profiling of diapause in the flesh fly
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-08-2010)“…Diapause is a widespread adaptation to seasonality across invertebrate taxa. It is critical for persistence in seasonal environments, synchronizing life…”
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Early life hormetic treatments decrease irradiation-induced oxidative damage, increase longevity, and enhance sexual performance during old age in the Caribbean fruit fly
Published in PloS one (31-01-2014)“…Early life events can have dramatic consequences on performance later in life. Exposure to stressors at a young age affects development, the rate of aging,…”
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Short-term anoxic conditioning hormesis boosts antioxidant defenses, lowers oxidative damage following irradiation and enhances male sexual performance in the Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-06-2012)“…Most organisms are repeatedly exposed to oxidative stress from multiple sources throughout their lifetimes, potentially affecting all aspects of organismal…”
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Meeting the energetic demands of insect diapause: Nutrient storage and utilization
Published in Journal of insect physiology (01-08-2007)“…Insects in diapause characteristically feed very little or not at all, thus they are largely or totally dependent on energy reserves sequestered prior to the…”
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Bigger isn't always better: Challenging assumptions about the associations between diapause, body weight, and overwintering survival
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-06-2024)“…During the winter, animals face limited food availability. Many animals enter dormancy to reduce their winter energy expenditure. Most insects spend the winter…”
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Does severe hypoxia during irradiation of Aedes aegypti pupae improve sterile male performance?
Published in Parasites & vectors (28-11-2022)“…Abstract Background The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti , vectors several pathogens responsible for human diseases. As a result, this mosquito species is…”
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A sterile insect technique pilot trial on Captiva Island: defining mosquito population parameters for sterile male releases using mark–release–recapture
Published in Parasites & vectors (01-11-2022)“…Abstract Background The sterile insect technique (SIT), which involves area-wide inundative releases of sterile insects to suppress the reproduction of a…”
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Protein Stores Regulate When Reproductive Displays Begin in the Male Caribbean Fruit Fly
Published in Frontiers in physiology (06-08-2020)“…Many animals exhibit reproductive behavior that requires expenditure of valuable nutrients. In males of many species, competitive energetically demanding…”
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Gene discovery using massively parallel pyrosequencing to develop ESTs for the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis
Published in BMC genomics (19-05-2009)“…Background: Flesh flies in the genus Sarcophaga are important models for investigating endocrinology, diapause, cold hardiness, reproduction, and immunity…”
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Sublethal effects of a vapour-active pyrethroid, transfluthrin, on Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) fecundity and oviposition behaviour
Published in Parasites & vectors (29-08-2018)“…It is assumed that mosquitoes surviving exposure to spatial repellents when attempting to bite a host will not have significant adverse impacts on their…”
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Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (10-05-2021)“…There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes can influence multiple nutrition-related behaviors of their hosts, including locomotion, feeding, and…”
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Low‐oxygen hormetic conditioning improves field performance of sterile insects by inducing beneficial plasticity
Published in Evolutionary applications (01-02-2021)“…As part of sterile insect technique (SIT) programs, irradiation can effectively induce sterility in insects by damaging germline genomic DNA. However,…”
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Mitochondrial superoxide dismutase overexpression and low oxygen conditioning hormesis improve the performance of irradiated sterile males
Published in Scientific reports (12-10-2021)“…The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a successful autocidal control method that uses ionizing radiation to sterilize insects. However, irradiation in normal…”
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Rapid brain development and reduced neuromodulator titres correlate with host shifts in Rhagoletis pomonella
Published in Royal Society open science (07-09-2022)“…Host shifts are considered a key generator of insect biodiversity. For insects, adaptation to new host plants often requires changes in larval/pupal…”
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Low-Oxygen Atmospheric Treatment Improves the Performance of Irradiation-Sterilized Male Cactus Moths Used in SIT
Published in Journal of economic entomology (01-02-2014)“…As part of sterile insect technique (SIT) programs, irradiation can effectively induce sterility in insects by damaging genomic DNA. However, irradiation also…”
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Factors Affecting Population Dynamics of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in a Mixed Landscape with Bt Cotton and Peanut
Published in Insects (Basel, Switzerland) (19-04-2023)“…In North America, weather and host-plant abundance drive the population dynamics of the migratory pest The objectives of this study were to (i) estimate…”
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Describing the Diapause-Preparatory Proteome of the Beetle Colaphellus bowringi and Identifying Candidates Affecting Lipid Accumulation Using Isobaric Tags for Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteome Quantification (iTRAQ)
Published in Frontiers in physiology (26-04-2017)“…Prior to entering diapause, insects must prepare themselves physiologically to withstand the stresses of arresting their development for a lengthy period…”
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