Advances in Blattodea Research
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 October 2022) | Viewed by 844
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evolution; ecology; host-pathogen interactions; immunity; sociality; genomics
Special Issue Information
Blattodea, comprising all cockroaches and termites, is a diverse order of insects (over 4600 cockroach and approximately 3000 termite species) with a global distribution. Species belonging to this order boast adaptations to a broad range of habitats, as well as exhibiting a wide range of ecologies and phenotypes, including highly diverse feeding behaviors, forms of sociality, and developmental systems. These traits make Blattodea an ideal group for studying many aspects of insect biology, such as evolution, phylogenetics, biodiversity, morphology, ecology, physiology, and pest management—to name but a few. In the past, a great number of studies have, understandably, focused on pest species, such as the German and American cockroaches, as well as several termite species. However, Blattodea research is becoming ever broader, with extensive research in ecology, evolution, sociality, morphology, phylogeny, biodiversity, immunology, microbiota, and, more recently, genomics. With this Special Issue, we aim to bring together work from all fields of blattodean research in order to increase awareness and interest for this important but somewhat underrepresented clade. We welcome novel research, reviews, and opinion pieces covering all aspects of blattodean biology. We are particularly interested in contributions of an interdisciplinary nature—for example, those combining molecular and bioinformatics tools to address fundamental questions in cockroach and termite biology.
Prof. Dr. Dino P. McMahon
Dr. Mark C. Harrison
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Blattodea
- cockroaches
- termites
- biodiversity
- evolution
- sociality
- pest management
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