Physiological Entomology

Virtual Issue - A collection of popular articles from Physiological Entomology - Nov 2011

A collection of popular articles from Physiological Entomology

Physiological Entomology publishes original high-quality research in the broad area of insect physiology. The editors believe behaviour and physiology are different approaches to a single subject that ranges from molecular to whole organism studies. Thus the journal serves the interests of experimentalists who work on the behaviour of insects and other arthropods, but retains the Royal Entomological Society’s traditional interest in the general physiology of arthropods. This Virtual Issue provides a selection of top downloaded articles during 2011 which have previously been published in Physiological Entomology between 2003 and 2011.

Diet affects female mating behaviour in a seed-feeding beetle
Charles W. Fox and Jordi Moya-Laraño

Lipid content of terrestrial arthropods in relation to body size, phylogeny, ontogeny and sex
Hilary M. Lease and Blair O. Wolf

Effect of food shortage and temperature on oxygen consumption in the lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
D. Renault, F. Hervant and P. Vernon

Epidemiology of insect-transmitted plant viruses: modelling disease dynamics and control interventions
M. J. Jeger, J. Holt, F. Van Den Bosch and L. V. Madden

Alarm behaviour in Eciton army ants
Pablo F. Lalor and William O. H. Hughes

Thermal tolerance of sympatric hymenopteran parasitoid species: does it match seasonal activity?
Cecile Le Lann, Olivier Roux, Nelly Serain, Jacques J. M. Van Alphen, Philippe Vernon and Joan Van Baaren

Relevance of visual and olfactory cues for host location in the mustard leaf beetle Phaedon cochleariae
Anne Kühnle and Caroline Müller

Trail pheromones of ants
E. David Morgan

Identification of host-plant chemical stimuli for the European grape berry moth Eupoecilia ambiguella
Daniela Schmidt-Büsser, Martin Von Arx, Sophie Connétable and Patrick M. Guerin

How can cleptoparasitic drosophilid flies emerge from the closed brood cells of the red Mason bee?
Erhard Strohm

Ultrasonic courtship songs of male Asian corn borer moths assist copulation attempts by making the females motionless
Ryo Nakano, Takuma Takanashi, Niels Skals, Annemarie Surlykke and Yukio Ishikawa

Taste receptor activity and feeding behaviour reveal mechanisms of white spruce natural resistance to Eastern spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana
Emma Despland, Maria Gundersen, Simon P. Daoust, Brian J. Mader, Nathalie Delvas and Paul J. Albert, Eric Bauce