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Given the success of the first edition of Insect Physiology Aspects of Environmentally Friendly Strategies for Crop Pests and Insect Vectors Control and the continuing advances in the field, we are pleased to announce Volume II. Nowadays we are constantly being invited to increase our knowledge towards the control of insect population, mainly agricultural pests, and disease vectors. Insecticide resistance is a phenomenon where resistant insects do not die when faced with chemical compounds used as insecticides. Various factors are associated with insecticide resistance, including biological, genetic, and operational (amount of insecticides applied on determinate area) causes. Insecticides are extremely toxic to the environment and therefore, searching for environmentally friendly methods for population management of insect vectors and crop pests is one of the greatest scientific challenges we need to elucidate to preserve the Earth and make it a better place to live in.
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Aristotle in the Historia animalium, (Book IV) gives one of the earliest descriptions of the anatomy of the cephalopod digestive tract, comparing it to that of other molluscs. From dissections of cuttlefish several key features of the cephalopod digestive tract were described: the beak (“teeth”) and radula (“tongue”), the passage of the oesophagus through the brain en route to the crop and stomach. The stomach is described as having spiral convolutions like a trumpet snail shell suggesting that the structure described is actually the caecum. The gut then turns anteriorly so that the anal opening is near the funnel leading a modern author to comment that they “defaecate on their hea...
The last five years have been extremely challenging, but also very innovative for cephalopod science, and the outstanding tradition of biological contribution with cephalopod molluscs as key players in science and human activities and interests has continued. This Research Topic is one of several dedicated to cephalopod molluscs (e.g., Hanke and Osorio, 2018; Ponte et al., 2018) hosted by Frontiers over the last few years, not to mention other papers published separately. Highlighting of cephalopod science is important because it has much to offer not only the life science community, but also more broadly the public perception of science and its understanding and relationship with scientific...
The current eBook collection includes substantial scientific work in describing how insect species are responding to abiotic factors and recent climatic trends on the basis of insect physiology and population dynamics. The contributions can be broadly split into four chapters: the first chapter focuses on the function of environmental and mostly temperature driven models, to identify the seasonal emergence and population dynamics of insects, including some important pests. The second chapter provides additional examples on how such models can be used to simulate the effect of climate change on insect phenology and population dynamics. The third chapter focuses on describing the effects of nutrition, gene expression and phototaxis in relation to insect demography, growth and development, whilst the fourth chapter provides a short description on the functioning of circadian systems as well as on the evolutionary dynamics of circadian clocks.
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