Host Volatiles Potentially Drive Two Evolutionarily Related Weevils to Select Different Grains

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors presented that maize and rice weevils exhibit different host preferences among three types of grains. Their research represents a valuable impact on previous knowledge of host volatile for the tested weevils therefore contributing to the possibility of applying the acquired knowledge for traps and repellents development. The proposed manuscript will be suitable for publishing in the Journal Insects, after some minor corrections. Detailed comments and recommendations are listed within the attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

 Thanks for your suggestions on the improvement of this manuscript. We have modified this manuscript based on these comments. The details can be found as follows:

Reviewer 1

Line 49 Please use the authority for species when first mentioned; Sitophilus zeamais Motsch. and Sitophilus oryzae L.

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Line 50 Change product pests with product pest species

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Line 64 This statement needs to be change… Fumigation with insecticides…with fumigation along with insecticide application … or application of fumigants and insecticides

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Line 73-77 Use Italic style for Latin names of species, also write the authorities for insect species within the Line 76 and 77

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Line 88: Reorder… Then we…

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Line 104-105 How was the rearing conducted: were the insects reared mixture of different grain media, or in the separated

: Thanks for pointing out this. The insects were reared mixture of different grain media.

Line 125 Change describe in with described by

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Line 309-312 Please use the uniformly way of presenting a species (insect or plant) name, only Latin or Latin and English, and also authority after Latin name for species when first mentioned (Poliestes fuscatus, P. metricus.

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Change Helicoverpa. Assulta with Helicoverpa assulta.

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Line 311 The reference Orsucci et al. is missing in the reference list. Reference under No 45 is another ref.

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Supplementary Materials: I could not find the supplement files, please check if the URL may have been incorrectly typed, or it is moved into another site.

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Line 415-516 Ref 32; the part of the doi number is written in the next row, please rewrite it and change the number order of the following references.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

see suggestions for their manuscript (inside the document)

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

 Thanks for your suggestions on the improvement of this manuscript. We have modified this manuscript based on these comments. The details can be found as follows:

Major revision

Reviewer 2

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Figure 3&4

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Reference

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