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
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, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, 101100, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: candy.wan@mdpi.com
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Dr. Martyn Rittman
MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: rittman@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Dr. Spencer T. Behmer
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA
Website: http://behmerlab.tamu.edu/STBehmer.html
Interests: insect nutritional physiology; foraging behavior; physiological ecology; plant-insect interactions
Prof. Dr. Julio S. Bernal
Department of Entomology (MS 2475), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA
Tel. +1 979 8628378; Fax: +1 979 8455926
Website: http://insects.tamu.edu/people/faculty/bernalj.cfm
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
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
Prof. Dr. Drion G. Boucias
Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Building 970, Natural Area Dr. (Steinmetz Hall), Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Website: http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/cv/people/boucias/
Interests: insect pathology; insect disease interactions; microbial metabolites; epizootiology; microbial control; structure-function relationships; symbiont/pathogen interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Insect Pathology
Prof. Dr. Michael D. Breed
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA
Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~breed/lab_web_site/Breed_Lab.html
Interests: behavior and ecology of social insects; social communication; division of labor; orientation; honeybees; ants; paraponera; ponerine ants
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
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
Central Environmental and Food Science Research Institute, H-1022 Budapest, Herman O. u. 15., Hungary
Tel. +36 303682400; Fax: +36 13918655
Website: http://www.bdarvas.hu/honlap
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
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
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, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Tel. +1 662 915 2341
Interests: insect evolution; molecular ecology; biogeography; population genetics; conservation biology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Phylogeographic Syntheses
Dr. Christina M. Grozinger
Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Website: http://www.grozingerlab.com
Contribution:
Special Issue: Honey Bee
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/
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.eeb.utoronto.ca/people/G-faculty/Gwynne.htm
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
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
Interests: induced resistance; plant defense against insects; plant communication; cicadas; arctiid moths
Dr. Michael Kristensen
Department of Agroecology - Entomology and Plant Pathology, Aarhus University，Forsøgsvej 1，4200 Slagelse， Denmark
Website: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/id%284f8710aa-d7a5-444b-bfc1-c1b4e4d17d6e%29.html
Interests: insecticide resistance; gene expression; molecular ecology; genomics; pest management
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://www.entomology.wisc.edu/users/qlan
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: https://ag.purdue.edu/entm/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=lmason
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/
Interests: functional genomics and proteomics; developmental and hormonal regulation of gene expression; gene switches
Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Phillips
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Website: http://entomology.k-state.edu/people/faculty/Phillips-Thomas-W.html
Interests: stored-product insects; post-harvest insects; stored grain; fumigation; fumigation alternatives; pheromones; mating disruption
Dr. Olivia L. Reynolds
EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (An alliance between the 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
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. Joachim Ruther
Institute for Zoology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Tel. +49-(0)941-943 2151
Website: http://www.biologie.uni-regensburg.de/Zoologie/Ruther/index.html
Interests: chemical ecology of insects; semiochemicals; pheromones; sexual communication; insect behavior; parasitic wasps; pheromone evolution; insect-plant interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Pheromones and Insect Behaviour
Prof. Dr. Maxwell J. Scott
Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University,Campus Box 7613, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7613, USA
Website: http://genetics.sciences.ncsu.edu/index.php/people/max-scott
Interests: genetic pest management; insect transgenesis; sex determination; X chromosome dosage compensation
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/sixlab/Six.html
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. Charles Michael Smith
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Website: http://entomology.k-state.edu/people/faculty/Smith-C-Michael.html
Interests: plant resistance to arthropods; plant R gene mapping; arthropod virulence/avirulence genes; plant defense responses
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tautz
BEEgroup, Biozentrum, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
Website: http://www.beegroup.de/
Interests: Biology of honeybees
Dr. Robert Kenneth Vander Meer
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/saa/cmave/ifahi/rkvandermeer
Interests: Social insects; chemical ecology; invasive pest ants; semiochemicals; social behavior; analytical chemistry
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
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/
Interests: ancient DNA; insect evolution; molecular ecology; population genetics
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