Biologists have made a detailed analysis of specific aspects of the genome of the important plant pest, the pea aphid. A special issue of Insect Molecular Biology reports the detailed analyses of ...

First it’s mammal bad breath. Then it’s babies pestering for piggyback rides. A near-death experience is tough on pea aphids. Now Gish and Moshe Inbar, both at the University of Haifa in Israel, ...

Having the right bacteria can be a lifesaver for an aphid. Having the wrong bacteria, or no bacteria at all, could be a recipe for becoming wasp fodder. Pea aphids vary in their resistance to ...

The pea aphid is one of the weirdest and most versatile creatures around. It can reproduce sexually or asexually, can breed winged or unwinged babies, and is also a symbiote. This week, its genome has ...

Coral Gables, FL (February 23, 2010)—For the first time, scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the pea aphid, a notorious horticultural and agricultural pest. The findings reveal the extent ...

Pea aphids, expert survivors of the insect world, appear to lack major biological defenses, according to the first genetic analysis of their immune system. "It's surprising," says Emory biologist ...

Pea aphids—a serious agricultural pest—have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on plant leaves, according to a new Cornell University study published in Current Biology. It ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

The paper B. Li et al., “A large genomic insertion containing a duplicated follistatin gene is linked to the pea aphid male wing dimorphism,” eLife, 9:e50608, 2020. The sap-sucking pea aphid ...

Aphid numbers are average to above average across the inland Pacific Northwest, a university researcher says. “While there is definitely more activity for most aphid species compared to last year, it ...

Phytophagous insects frequently use multiple host-plant species leading to the evolution of specialized host-adapted populations and sometimes eventually to speciation. Some insects are confronted ...