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RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts (2024)
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Rogers, S. M., Cullen, D. A., Labonte, D., Sutton, G. P., Vanden Broeck, J. J., & Burrows, M. (2025). RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2415625121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415625121

Resilin, an elastomeric protein with remarkable physical properties that outperforms synthetic rubbers, is a near-ubiquitous feature of the power amplification mechanisms used by jumping insects. Catapult-like mechanisms, which incorporate elastic en... Read More about RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts.

Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research (2024)
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Ries, M. W., Adriaansen, C., Aldobai, S., Berry, K., Bal, A. B., Catenaccio, M. C., Cigliano, M. M., Cullen, D. A., Deveson, T., Diongue, A., Foquet, B., Hadrich, J., Hunter, D., Johnson, D. L., Karnatz, J. P., Lange, C. E., Lawton, D., Lazar, M., Latchininsky, A. V., Lecoq, M., …Cease, A. (2024). Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 33(2), 169-216. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.112803

Locusts and other migratory grasshoppers are transboundary pests. Monitoring and control, therefore, involve a complex system made up of social, ecological, and technological factors. Researchers and those involved in active management are calling fo... Read More about Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research.

Non-invasive characterization of the elastic protein resilin in insects using Raman spectroscopy (2023)
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Woodrow, C., Cullen, D. A., Montealegre-Z, F., & Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. (2024). Non-invasive characterization of the elastic protein resilin in insects using Raman spectroscopy. International journal of biological macromolecules, 254(2), Article 127967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127967

Resilin is an extremely efficient elastic protein found in the moving parts of insects. Despite many years of resilin research, we are still only just starting to understand its diversity, native structures, and functions. Understanding differences i... Read More about Non-invasive characterization of the elastic protein resilin in insects using Raman spectroscopy.

Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation (2022)
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Siamantouras, E., Woodrow, C., Celiker, E., Cullen, D. A., Hills, C. E., Squires, P. E., & Montealegre-Z, F. (2022). Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation. Acta Biomaterialia, 153, 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.08.056

Derived from the respiratory tracheae, bush-crickets’ acoustic tracheae (or ear canals) are hollow tubes evolved to transmit sounds from the external environment to the interior ear. Due to the location of the ears in the forelegs, the acoustic trach... Read More about Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation.

Behavioural phase change in the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is triggered by tactile stimulation of the antennae (2010)
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Cullen, D. A., Sword, G. A., Dodgson, T., & Simpson, S. J. (2010). Behavioural phase change in the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is triggered by tactile stimulation of the antennae. Journal of Insect Physiology, 56(8), 937-942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.04.023

Density-dependent phase polyphenism is a defining characteristic of the paraphyletic group of acridid grasshoppers known as locusts. The cues and mechanisms associated with crowding that induce behavioural gregarization are best understood in the des... Read More about Behavioural phase change in the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is triggered by tactile stimulation of the antennae.