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E-Mail: insects@mdpi.com
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Editorial Office

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Brian T. Forschler
Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, 413 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602-2603, USA
Tel. +1 706 5422816
Website: http://www.ent.uga.edu/personnel/faculty/forschler.htm
E-Mail: bfor@uga.edu
Interests: termite behavior; field efficacy of termite baits; new chemistries for novel termite control tactics; determination of subterranean termite social structure using agonism, morphological characters, cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and genetic markers

Managing Editor
Ms. Candy Wan
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011009; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: candy.wan@mdpi.com

Production Editor
Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
E-Mail: pike@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Julio S. Bernal
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A & M University, Agriculture and Life Sciences Building, 600 John Kimbrough Boulevard, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA
Tel. +1 979 8628378; Fax: +1 979 8455926
Website: http://insects.tamu.edu/people/faculty/bernalj.cfm
E-Mail: juliobernal@tamu.edu
Interests: biological control; parasitoid ecology and behavior; insect-plant interactions; GMO crops; agriculture and pest management in developing countries

Prof. Dr. Jörg Bohlmann
Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, 321 - 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Tel. +1 604 8220282; Fax: +1 604 8222114
Website: http://www.michaelsmith.ubc.ca/faculty/bohlmann
E-Mail: bohlmann@interchange.ubc.ca
Interests: secondary metabolism; plant defense against insects and insect-associated pathogens; forestry and grapevine genomics; research on the molecular genetic, biochemical, and chemical characterization of terpenoid defenses in conifers and poplars against insect pests and pathogens; terpenoid synthases and cytochrome P450 enzymes

Dr. Wolfgang Büchs
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 596 2309; Fax: +49 531 596 2399
E-Mail: wolfgang.buechs@jki.bund.de
Interests: insects of agro-ecosystems: biodiversity, biotic indicators, nutritional ecology, pests, predators, soil insects, multitrophic-interactions, effects of GMO´s and/or pesticides on non-targets

Prof. Dr. Béla Darvas
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Plant Protection Institute, Department of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Analysis, Herman Ottó u. 15, H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
Tel. +36 303682400; Fax: +36 13918655
Website: http://www.bdarvas.hu/honlap
E-Mail: bdarvas@chello.hu
Interests: applied dipterology; insect endocrinology; ecdysteroids; juvenile hormones; pest control; effects of bioactive compounds; secondary effects of insecticides; ecotoxicology; genotoxicities of insecticides; environmental hormonal disruptors; insecticide resistance; secondary effects of genetically modified plants; Bt-plants; mode of action of Cry-toxins
Contribution: Special Issue: Effects of Genetically Modified Plants on Insects

Prof. Dr. Ke Dong
Department of Entomology, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, 243 Natural Sciences Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Tel. +1 517 4322034; Fax: +1 517 3534534
Website: http://www.ent.msu.edu/Directory/Facultypages/dong/tabid/138/Default.aspx
E-Mail: dongk@msu.edu
Interests: insect toxicology and neurobiology; insect ion channels and receptors; mode of action of insecticides; mechanisms of insecticide resistance

Dr. Edward B. Dubrovsky
Department of Biological Sciences, Rose Hill Campus Bronx, Larkin Hall 160, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Tel. +1 718 8173660; Fax: +1 718 8173645
Website: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/biological_sciences/faculty/edward_b_dubrovsky_27231.asp
E-Mail: dubrovsky@fordham.edu
Interests: insect endocrinology; hormonal control of insect development; ecdysone and juvenile hormone action; nuclear receptors and gene expression; Drosophila genetics; RNA interference

Dr. Ryan C. Garrick
Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Tel. +1 662 915 2341
E-Mail: rgarrick@olemiss.edu
Interests: insect evolution; molecular ecology; biogeography; population genetics; conservation biology
Contribution: Special Issue: Phylogeographic Syntheses

Prof. Dr. Angel Guerrero
Chemical Ecology Unit, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Modeling, IQAC, CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034-Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 4006120; Fax: +34 93 2045904
Website: http://www.iiqab.csic.es/chemecol/
E-Mail: angel.guerrero@iqac.csic.es
Interests: insect pheromones; attractants and inhibitors; identification and synthesis of bioactive compounds; analytical and electrophysiological techniques; behavioural assays; pest control

Prof. Dr. Darryl T. Gwynne
Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
Tel. +1 905 8283892; Fax: +1 905 8283792
Website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3bio/homepage/faculty/gwynne.html
E-Mail: darryl.gwynne@utoronto.ca
Interests: sexual selection; communication; mating systems; ensiferan orthoptera; empididae

Prof. Dr. Fangneng Huang
Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Agricultural Center, 404 Life Sciences Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-0001, USA
Tel. +1 225 5780111; Fax: +1 225 5781643
Website: http://entomology.lsu.edu/faculty/huang_files/huang.htm
E-Mail: fhuang@agcenter.lsu.edu
Interests: biology and management of field crop insect pests; transgenic Bt crops; insecticide resistance and management

Prof. Dr. Richard Karban
Department of Entomology, UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8584, USA
Tel. +1 530 7522800; Fax: +1 530 7521537
Website: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=karban
E-Mail: rkarban@ucdavis.edu
Interests: induced resistance; plant defense against insects; plant communication; cicadas; arctiid moths

Prof. Dr. Que Lan
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Tel. +1 608 2637924; Fax: +1 608 2623322
Website: http://entomology.wisc.edu/~qlan/
E-Mail: qlan@entomology.wisc.edu
Interests: insect developmental biology; sterol uptake and metabolism; insecticide development; fucntional genomics

Prof. Dr. Linda J. Mason
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Purdue University, 901 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1158, USA
Tel. +1 765 4944586
Website: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/entm/pages/lmason.aspx
E-Mail: lmason@purdue.edu
Interests: insect behavior; food pest management; alternative chemistries for post-harvest insect control; modified atmospheres, including ozone; urban entomology; vertebrate pest management

Prof. Dr. Subba Reddy Palli
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, S-225 Agricultural Science Center North, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
Tel. +1 859 2574962; Fax: +1 859 3231120
Website: http://www.uky.edu/~rpalli/
E-Mail: rpalli@uky.edu
Interests: functional genomics and proteomics; developmental and hormonal regulation of gene expression; gene switches

Dr. Olivia L. Reynolds
EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Woodbridge Road, Menangle NSW 2568, Australia
Tel. +61 2 46406426; Fax: +61 2 46406300
Website: http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/research/staff/olivia-reynolds
E-Mail: olivia.reynolds@industry.nsw.gov.au
Interests: silicon & insect-plant interactions; fruit fly pest management & trapping; sterile insect technique; biological control; insect behaviour
Contribution: Special Issue: Augmentative Biological Control Using Parasitoids for Fruit Fly Management

Prof. Dr. Diana Six
Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, College of Forestry&Conservation, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
Tel. +1 406 2435573
Website: http://www.cfc.umt.edu/PersonnelDetail.aspx?id=1140
E-Mail: diana.six@cfc.umt.edu
Interests: insect-microbe symbioses; mutualism; effects of climate change on symbioses/mutualism; bark beetles; ambrosia beetles; climate change roles on forest die-offs
Contribution: Special Issue: Symbiosis: A Source of Evolutionary Innovation in Insects

Prof. Dr. Felix Wäckers
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Tel. +44 1524 510230; Fax: +44 1524 510217
Website: http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/csa/research/felix_wackers.php
E-Mail: f.wackers@lancaster.ac.uk
Interests: insect sensory physiology; insect nutritional physiology; nectar/pollen/honeydew feeding; biological pest control; plant-insect interactions

Prof. Dr. Eske Willerslev
Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350, Denmark
Tel. +45 35321309; Fax: +45 35321300
Website: http://macroecology.ku.dk/
E-Mail: ewillerslev@bio.ku.dk
Interests: ancient DNA; insect evolution; molecular ecology; population genetics

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