Ana Claudia Amaral Melo1,2
Guenter Arthur Schaub3
Marcelo Salabert Gonzalez2,4,5,6*
Norman Arthur Ratcliffe5,7- 1Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2National Institute of Science and Technology - Molecular Entomology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 3Chair of Evolutionary Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, Working Group for Zoology and Parasitology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- 4Department of General Biology, Institute of Biology, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil
- 5Postgraduate Program in Science and Biotechnology, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil
- 6Postgraduate Program in Applied Physics, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 7Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
Editorial on the Research Topic
Insect Physiology Aspects of Environmentally Friendly Strategies for Crop Pests and Insect Vectors Control
Enhancing our knowledge concerning the control of invertebrate populations, mainly of agricultural pests and disease vectors, is nowadays one of the World’s greatest scientific challenges. In the context of environmentally friendly interventions to control crop pests and insect vectors, this Research Topic focuses particularly relevant scientific articles on aspects of arthropod physiology. These include insect responses to plant and animal volatiles which enhance attraction and repellence in Tsetse flies (Mireji et al.), potential genes and neuropeptides for reproductive regulation in Bombyx mori (Xu et al.) and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Xiong et al.), a meta-analysis method to evaluate insecticide resistance (Wang et al.), screening of plant metabolites acting as physiologically active compounds in Rhipicephalus microplus (Mattos et al.), and a review concerning delivery of dsRNA molecules within the cells of targeted pest control insects (Swevers et al.). Together, these research papers present recent advances in understanding the manipulation of both invertebrate physiology and ecological elements using refined molecular approaches and represent innovative perspectives in the field of environmentally friendly strategies for the control of important arthropod populations, avoiding the use of insecticides toxic to animals and humans.
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Keywords: insect physiology, control of arthropod populations, crop pests, insect vectors, environmentally friendly strategies
Citation: Melo ACA, Schaub GA, Gonzalez MS and Ratcliffe NA (2022) Editorial: Insect Physiology Aspects of Environmentally Friendly Strategies for Crop Pests and Insect Vectors Control. Front. Physiol. 13:905301. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.905301
Received: 26 March 2022; Accepted: 04 April 2022;
Published: 11 May 2022.
Edited and reviewed by:
Sylvia Anton, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), FranceCopyright © 2022 Melo, Schaub, Gonzalez and Ratcliffe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Marcelo Salabert Gonzalez, msgonzalez@id.uff.br