A sweeping metatranscriptomic survey of blood-feeding insects in Colombia has revealed an unexpectedly rich and variable ...

A recent review published in PLOS Pathogens discussed the current research on the role of molecular mechanisms in mediating immune priming in insects and regulating vector-borne disease transmission.

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia pipientis and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not ...

IN a recent communication 1 we described a new virus attacking turnips, which we had isolated in crystalline form. At that time we had found no insect vector for the virus, all the experiments with ...