Behavioural plasticity can drive the evolution of new traits in animals. In oviparous species, plasticity in oviposition behaviour could promote the evolution of new egg traits by exposing them to different selective pressures in novel oviposition sites. Individual females of the predatory stink bug Podisus maculiventris are able to selectively colour their eggs depending on leaf side, laying lightly pigmented eggs on leaf undersides and more pigmented eggs, which are more resistant to ultraviolet (UV)...

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-wmr-10.1177_0734242X221129054 for Thermal degradation and combustion properties of most popular synthetic biodegradable polymers by Hongmei Chen, Fengyi Chen, Hui Chen, Hongsheng Liu, Ling Chen and Long Yu in Waste Management & Research

Various products made from biodegradable polymers have been increasing rapidly in the market since the use of non-biodegradable materials has been banned, particularly for the disabled packaging materials. Burning remains the most popular method that is increasingly used in treating city wastes. The impact of these polymers on environmental during thermal degradation and combustion is an important issue for city waste management. In this work, the thermal degradation and combustion behaviours of the most popular...

Additional file 1: Table S1. Prier used in this study. Table S2. List of 392 Glycine soja accessions and acumulated temperature zones. Table S3. 92 SNPs that significantly associated with flowering time in average across the two-year experiment (2020 and 2021). Table S4. The genes conresponding to the genomic regions surrounding ~50Kb of 92 SNPs that signficantly associated with flowering time in average in 2020 and 2021. Table S5. 28 candidate genes related to flowering...

Abstract Flowering time and active accumulated temperature (AAT) are two key factors that limit the expanded production especially for soybean across different regions. Wild soybean provides an important germplasm for functional genomics study in cultivar soybean. However, the studies on genetic basis underlying flowering time in response to AAT especially in wild soybean were rarely reported. In this study, we used 294 wild soybean accessions derived from major soybean production region characterized by different AAT...

Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives has the potential to introduce novel variation into wild populations. Camelina (Camelina sativa) is a promising oilseed and cultivars with modified seed characteristics and herbicide resistance are in development, prompting a need to evaluate the potential for novel trait introgression into weedy relatives. Little-podded false flax (littlepod; Camelina microcarpa) is a naturalized weed in Canada and the USA. Here we evaluated the hybridization rate between the three cytotypes...

Understanding competition between scelionid parasitoids that exploit the same host may provide insight into strategies that allow co-existence on a shared resource. Competition studies typically focus on interactions between native and exotic parasitoids that do not share an evolutionary history; however, co-evolved parasitoids may be more likely to demonstrate strategies to avoid or exploit a shared resource. We examined intrinsic and extrinsic competition between Asian Trissolcus japonicus Ashmead and T. cultratus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) associated...

Additional file 2. Conserved lncRNAs ratios for each species.

Additional file 4 Significant enrichment functions (n = 39) of conserved lncRNA set (n = 196).

Interkingdom competition occurs between hymenopteran parasitoids and insect viruses sharing the same insect hosts. It has been assumed that parasitoid larvae die with the death of infected host or as result of competition for host resources. Herein we describe a gene family, parasitoid killing factor (pkf), that encodes proteins toxic to parasitoids of the Microgastrinae group and determines parasitism success. Pkfs are found in several entomopathogenic DNA virus families and in some lepidopteran genomes. We...

Abstract Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play vital roles in many important biological processes in plants. Currently, a large fraction of plant lncRNA studies center at lncRNA identification and functional analysis. Only a few plant lncRNA studies focus on understanding their evolutionary history, which is crucial for an in-depth understanding of lncRNAs. Therefore, the integration of large volumes of plant lncRNA data is required to deeply investigate the evolution of lncRNAs. Results We present a...

Abstract Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play vital roles in many important biological processes in plants. Currently, a large fraction of plant lncRNA studies center at lncRNA identification and functional analysis. Only a few plant lncRNA studies focus on understanding their evolutionary history, which is crucial for an in-depth understanding of lncRNAs. Therefore, the integration of large volumes of plant lncRNA data is required to deeply investigate the evolution of lncRNAs. Results We present a...

Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae Acalyphoideae) is a large, monophyletic genus distributed worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few species extending into temperate Asia and North America. We reconstructed phylogenetic relationships within the genus using DNA sequences from the plastid ndhF and trnL-F regions and the nuclear ribosomal ITS region, sampling 143 species to represent the geographic, morphologic, and taxonomic diversity with the genus, resulting in a 162 (158 in Acalypha) terminal and 3847 character combined...

Several members of Alternaria section Alternaria are economically important plant-pathogenic fungi that cause disease on a wide range of host types and plant tissues. The production of Alternaria-derived mycotoxins can lead to significant post-harvest losses due to contamination of agricultural products. Multiple Alternaria species are listed as regulated organisms, which are monitored by international plant protection programs. These taxa often share high levels of both morphological and phylogenetic similarity, and the establishment of molecular markers...

Mitophagy that selectively eliminates damaged mitochondria is an essential mitochondrial quality control mechanism. Recently, mitophagy has been shown to be induced in host cells infected by a few animal viruses. Here, we report that southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), a plant nonenveloped double-stranded RNA virus, can also trigger mitophagy in its planthopper vector to prevent mitochondria-dependent apoptosis and promote persistent viral propagation. We find that the fibrillar structures constructed by the nonstructural protein P7-1...

Fusarium head blight (FHB), primarily incited by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe, is the most devastating disease of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in Canada. Contaminated grains are unsuitable for use as livestock feed or by the malting industry, primarily due to contamination by mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (DON). Reducing DON content has been a long-term goal of barley breeders; however, the complex genetics of resistance and laborious testing required have made it difficult to develop resistant cultivars....

Additional file 13: Table S8. The list of differentially methylated haplotype blocks (dMHBs) and functional enrichment for hyper dMHBs.

Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Trends in age standardized incidence, prevalence, death and Dalys rate in 5 SDI regions, From 1990 TO 2019.

Additional file 6: Table S1. Nordpred model predicts the total number of Incidence and deaths of AF/AFL.

Additional file 7: Table S2. Nordpred model predicts the ASR of Incidence and deaths of AF/AFL.

Additional file 4. Annotation of genes present within the 143 kb Starship transposon ‘Horizon’ present in the race 8 isolate I-73-1.

Additional file 4. Annotation of genes present within the 143 kb Starship transposon ‘Horizon’ present in the race 8 isolate I-73-1.

Additional file 6. Number of core, accessory, and singleton genes on individual contigs of the long-read assemblies of I-73-1 and D308.

Additional file 2: Overview of the NORMAN-SLE website (DOCX format) as of 30 May 2022 [82].

Additional file 2: Overview of the NORMAN-SLE website (DOCX format) as of 30 May 2022 [82].