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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My research program focuses on contributing to the theory and practice of biological control of arthropod pests in managed ecosystems. Specifically, research has focused on ecology and behavior of natural enemies and pests via field and laboratory studies.

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Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

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University of California, Riverside - (Riverside, California, United States)

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Testing predictions of small brood models using parasitoid wasps

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Ephestia kuehniella Zeller as a factitious host for Telenomus remus Nixon: Host acceptance and suitability

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Facilitated by nature and agriculture: performance of a specialist herbivore improves with host-plant life history evolution, domestication, and breeding.

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Nonsensical choices? Fall armyworm moths choose seemingly best or worst hosts for their larvae, but neonate larvae make their own choices.

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Seasonal and scale size relationships between citricola scale (Homoptera : Coccidae) and its parasitoid complex (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea) on San Joaquin Valley citrus

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Cry1Ab protoxin effects on Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).

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Influence of Adult Size on Mate Choice in the Solitary and Gregarious Parasitoids, Cotesia marginiventris and Cotesia flavipes

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Sense organs in antennae of Jaliscoa hunteri (Hymenoptera Pteromalidae)

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Photorhabdus khanii subsp. guanajuatensis subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis atacamensis, and Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. mexicana subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis mexicana entomopathogenic nematodes.

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FUNCTIONAL-RESPONSE OF DIAERETIELLA-RAPAE (MCINTOSH) (HYM, APHIDIIDAE) TO DIURAPHIS-NOXIA (MORDWILKO) (HOM, APHIDIDAE) HOSTS

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Species Composition, Damage Potential, and Insecticide Susceptibility of Stink Bugs in Cotton in the Lower Gulf Coast Region of Texas

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Field evaluation against Aedes aegypti larvae of aluminum-carboxymethylcellulose-encapsulated spore-toxin complex formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis.

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Thermal requirements of Aphelinus albipodus (Hayat and Fatima) (Hym, Aphelinidae) on Diuraphis noxia (Mordwilko) (Hom, Aphididae) hosts

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Family planning in a stemborer parasitoid: sex ratio, brood size and size-fitness relationships in Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and implications for biological control.

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Augmentative release trials with Metaphycus spp. (Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae) against citricola scale (Homoptera : Coccidae) in California's San Joaquin Valley

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Biology of Pseudoligosita plebeia (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), an egg parasitoid of Homalodisca spp. (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) collected from northwestern Mexico as a potential biocontrol agent of H. Vitripennis in California.

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Impacts of transgenic sugarcane expressing GNA lectin on parasitism of Mexican rice borer by Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Marsh) (Hymenoptera : Braconidae)

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Facultative hyperparasitism in Brachymeria pomonae (Hymenoptera : Chalcididae)

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Higher expression of induced defenses in teosintes (Zea spp.) is correlated with greater resistance to fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda

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Effect of the red imported fire ant on cotton aphid population density and predation of bollworm and beet armyworm eggs.

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Overwintering potential in California of two Russian wheat aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera : Aphelinidae et Aphidiidae) imported from Central Asia

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Impacts of weather, shade cover and elevation on coffee leafminer Leucoptera coffeella (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) population dynamics and natural enemies

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Evaluation of lectin-expressing transgenic sugarcane against stalkborers (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): effects on life history parameters.

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Do assortative mating and immigrant inviability help maintain population genetic structuring of an herbivore on a crop and a wild relative?

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Comparative Screening of Mexican, Rwandan and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes to Be Used against Invasive Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda.

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Aphelinus nigritus Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) Preference for Sorghum Aphid, Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), Honeydew Is Stronger in Johnson Grass, Sorghum halepense, Than in Grain Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor.

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Family planning in a stemborer parasitoid: Sex ratio, brood size and size-fitness relationships in Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and implications for biological control

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Reproduction of Aphelinus albipodus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) on Russian wheat aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) hosts

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Synergisitic effect of chitinases and Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis spore-toxin complex against Aedes aegypti larvae

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TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENTS OF 4 PARASITES OF THE RUSSIAN WHEAT APHID DIURAPHIS-NOXIA

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Examination and revision of the larval life history of Microplitis croceipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

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Impact assessment of Bt-maize on a moth parasitoid, Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera : Braconidae), via host exposure to purified Cry1Ab protein or Bt-plants

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Effects of snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis agglutinin) expressed in transgenic sugarcane on fitness of Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera : Braconidae), a parasitoid of the nontarget pest Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera : Crambidae)

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Plant defense against fall armyworm in micro-sympatric maize (Zea mays ssp mays) and Balsas teosinte (Zea mays ssp parviglumis)

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Reproduction of Diaeretiella rapae on Russian wheat aphid hosts at different temperatures

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Substrate influences mating success and transmission of courtship vibrations for the parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris

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Effects of snowdrop lectin on Mexican rice borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) life history parameters.

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Effects of corn stunt Spiroplasma on survival of dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae) parasitized or preyed upon by Gonatopus bartletti (Hymenoptera : Dryinidae) or infected by Metarhizium anisopliae

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Sex ratios in field populations of two parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Coccus hesperidum L. (Homoptera: Coccidae).

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Attraction of the parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris to host (Spodoptera frugiperda) frass is affected by transgenic maize.

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Leptodictya tabida (Hemiptera: Tingidae): a potential threat to sugarcane production in Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

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Genetically modified crops deserve greater ecotoxicological scrutiny.

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Root volatile profiles and herbivore preference are mediated by maize domestication, geographic spread, and modern breeding.

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Olfactory responses of Anaphes iole (Hymenoptera : Mymaridae) to volatile signals derived from host habitats

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Effects of snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis Agglutinin) expressed in transgenic sugarcane on fitness of cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of the nontarget pest diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

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Improving Natural Enemy Selection in Biological Control through Greater Attention to Chemical Ecology and Host-Associated Differentiation of Target Arthropod Pests.

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EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF A DEGREE-DAY MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARASITES IN THE FIELD

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Effects of malathion ULV applied for boll weevil eradication on survival and foraging activity of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, in Texas (USA) cotton

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Impact of natural enemies on coffee leafminer Leucoptera coffeella (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) population dynamics in Chiapas, Mexico

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Ecological compatibility of GM crops and biological control

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Clear advantages for fall armyworm larvae from feeding on maize relative to its ancestor Balsas teosinte may not be reflected in their mother's host choice

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Courtship songs of the Cotesia flavipes complex

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Foraging on individual leaves by an intracellular feeding insect is not associated with leaf biomechanical properties or leaf orientation.

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Maize biochemistry in response to root herbivory was mediated by domestication, spread, and breeding.

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Maize Domestication and Anti-Herbivore Defences: Leaf-Specific Dynamics during Early Ontogeny of Maize and Its Wild Ancestors.

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Occurrence, Identification, and Virulence of Native Fungal Pathogens Isolated From Mexican Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Larvae From Soils of Three Cropping Systems.

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Maize Biochemical Defences against a Rootworm Were Mediated by Domestication, Spread, and Breeding

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Impacts of developing on Bt maize-intoxicated hosts on fitness parameters of a stem borer parasitoid

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Impact of area-wide malathion on predatory arthropods and secondary pests in cotton during boll weevil eradication in Texas

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THERMAL REQUIREMENTS OF DIAERETIELLA-RAPAE (MINTOSH) ON RUSSIAN WHEAT APHID (DIURAPHIS-NOXIA MORDWILKO, HOM, APHIDIDAE) HOSTS

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Agriculture sows pests: how crop domestication, host shifts, and agricultural intensification can create insect pests from herbivores.

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Maize OPR2 and LOX10 Mediate Defense against Fall Armyworm and Western Corn Rootworm by Tissue-Specific Regulation of Jasmonic Acid and Ketol Metabolism

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Physical leaf defenses - altered by Zea life-history evolution, domestication, and breeding - mediate oviposition preference of a specialist leafhopper

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Parasitism and location of sugarcane borer (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae) by Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera : Braconidae) on transgenic and conventional sugarcane

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Did maize domestication and early spread mediate the population genetics of corn leafhopper?

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Egg parasitoids of proconiini (hemiptera: cicadellidae) in northwestern Mexico, with description of a new species of gonatocerus (hymenoptera: mymaridae).

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Susceptibility of Females and Males of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) B-Biotype and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) to Thiamethoxam

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Effect of continuous rearing on courtship acoustics of five braconid parasitoids, candidates for augmentative biological control of Anastrepha species

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Survivorship and development of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae), on conventional and transgenic maize cultivars expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Cry9C and Cry1A(b) endotoxins

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Fortuitous antixenosis in transgenic sugarcane: Antibiosis-expressing cultivar is refractory to ovipositing herbivore pests

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A Bird in the Hand Versus Two in the Bush? The Specialist Leafhopper Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Does Not Discriminate Against Sub-optimal Host Plants (Zea spp.).

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Mate finding via a trail sex pheromone by Aphytis melinus DeBach (Hymenoptera : Aphelinidae) males

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Effect of short-term cold storage on mummy-stage survival in two parasites of the Russian wheat aphid

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Host influences on sex ratio, longevity, and egg load of two Metaphycus species parasitic on soft scales: implications for insectary rearing

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Geographic variation in male courtship acoustics and genetic divergence of populations of the Cotesia flavipes species complex

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Population genetic structure of a specialist leafhopper on Zea: likely anthropogenic and ecological determinants of gene flow

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Effects of GNA transgenic sugarcane on life history parameters of Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Marsh) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of Mexican rice borer.

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Resistance and Tolerance to Root Herbivory in Maize Were Mediated by Domestication, Spread, and Breeding.

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Comparative Tolerance Levels of Maize Landraces and a Hybrid to Natural Infestation of Fall Armyworm.

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Maize seedling morphology and defence hormone profiles, but not herbivory tolerance, were mediated by domestication and modern breeding

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Entomology; 2475 TAMU

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# etdChairOf[].label
Diaz Galarraga, Rodrigo Rogelio (2004-09). Impact of the red imported fire ant upon cotton arthropods. Master's Thesis.

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Lomeli-Flores, Refugio (2009-05). Natural enemies and mortality factors of the coffee leafminer Leucoptera coffeella (Guerin-Meneville) (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) in Chiapas, Mexico. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Fontes Puebla, Ana Aurora (2019-12). Effects of Domestication, Spread, and Breeding on Maize Defenses Against Western Corn Rootworm. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hopkins, Bradley Wayne (2006-04). Species composition and seasonal abundance of stink bugs in cotton in the Lower Texas Gulf Coast and the virulence of Euschistus species to cotton. Master's Thesis.

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Chinchilla-Ramirez, Milena (2014-12). Mutual Impacts on a Specialist Herbivore and its Host Plants: Variation in Insect Morphology and Plant Tolerance. Master's Thesis.

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Davila-Flores, Amanda (2012-12). Host Plant Influences on Performance and Haplotype Diversity of Dalbulus maidis, a Specialist Herbivore of Zea. Master's Thesis.

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Joyce, Andrea Lee (2009-05). Courtship acoustics and mating in Cotesia, a genus of parasitoid wasps. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Manrique, Veronica (2005-02). Host habitat location mediated by olfactory stimuli in anaphes iole (hymenoptera: mymaridae), an egg parasitoid of lygus hesperus (hemiptera: miridae). Master's Thesis.

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Pruter, Luke Steven (2019-11). Integration of Disease and Insect Risk Assessment and Management in Maize. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bellota Villafuerte, Edwin (2013-01). Effects of Life History, Domestication, and Breeding of Zea on the Specialist Herbivore Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Master's Thesis.

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Butler, James Joseph (2004-11). Predicting boll weevil eradication induced pest outbreaks in Texas cotton. Master's Thesis.