Sex-specific variation in the antennal proteome of the migratory locust

Zheng, Renwen; Xia, Yuxian; Keyhani, Nemat O.

doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103681

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“…In addition, overgrazing will lead to the disorderly consumption of grassland plants, causing the rapid loss of nutrients in the soil, such as erosion and the loss of soil nitrogen that have degraded grasslands toward low-nitrogen plants [14]. Grassland degradation expands the exposed area of the soil, reduces the resources of beneficial wildlife and insect predators, and provides more space for the spawning and breeding of grasshoppers in some habitually arid habitats [15,31,32]. Therefore, our hypothesis is that livestock production behaviors resulting in overgrazing have a positive impact on locust disasters.…”

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Impacts of Livestock Production on Grassland Grasshopper Disasters

Liu,

Chen,

et al. 2024

Agronomy

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Grasshopper disasters threaten grassland animal husbandry, and overgrazing is widely recognized as one of the main causes of locust infestation in grassland regions. However, the impact of overgrazing on grasshopper disasters remains unclear. To address this knowledge gap, this study interviewed 541 households living in locust-prone areas in Inner Mongolia, China. The generalized Poisson model and OLS regression examined the relationship between herders’ production behavior and locust disasters. The results showed that 42% of the herders had suffered from locusts more than three times over the past 15 years, with an average of 49 ha of grassland damaged per household. In addition, with the increase in grazing rates, the scale of locust disasters decreased before it increased. The results also showed that operating grassland areas and feeding forage reduced locust disasters significantly, while renting grassland areas and grazing rates worked oppositely. These results suggest that grazing intensity can make a significant difference in the occurrence of locust disasters.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of Livestock Production on Grassland Grasshopper Disasters

Liu,

Chen,

et al. 2024

Agronomy

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“…The Supplementary Information contains more information about locust biology. desert locust may replicate a single generation in less than a month, which is six times more rapid than other locust species [15]. The individuals can live up to three months, which, along with their rapid expansion, results in a 20-fold increase in population every generation [16].…”

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Locust Attack: Managing and Control Strategies by the Government of Pakistan

Usman

Ijaz

Aziz

et al. 2022

PPASB

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During outbreaks of Schistocerca gregaria, the desert locust swarms, and plagues known to infest numerous regions across wide areas of Asia and Africa. The locust devours large amounts of crops and rangeland flora. Recently the locust outbreak began in June 2018 in Saudi Arabia’s distant areas and entered in Pakistan March 2019, destroying main crops such as cotton, wheat, rice and maize in many districts across Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. On February 1, 2020, a national emergency was proclaimed, and the Plant Protection department countered by launching monitoring and prevention activities with the help of other institutions in Pakistan, as well as global and bilateral organizations. Surveillance and control activities were carried out with the majority of the insecticide formulations being oil-based ultra-low volume, nonconventional and green technology approaches. In addition, the Pakistani government devised a comprehensive phase wised management strategy as well as a National Locust Control Center with fast retort troops deployed in critical areas. Additional surveillance and control measures are needed to stop or alleviate desert locust-related agriculture damages. The unusual characteristics of the desert locust, as well as the size and frequency of swarming events, make developing and implementing IPM measures difficult. The state of prospective integrated measures to control locusts is discussed, as well as proactive and preventive intervention options.

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“…The CSPs own their names due to the fact that these soluble polypeptides are widely expressed in chemosensory tissues of insects, including the antennae, maxillary, labial palps, and proboscis. According the previous reports, some of them have similar functions as OBPs in initiating biochemical recognition while others could perform tasks unrelated to chemosensation, such as development and transition ( Liu et al, 2014 ; Qu et al, 2020 ; Waris et al, 2020 ; Zheng, Xia & Keyhani, 2020 ).…”

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Identification and expression pattern of chemosensory genes in the transcriptome of Propsilocerus akamusi

Yan

Sun

Cao

et al. 2020

PeerJ

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Chironomidae is the most ecologically diverse insects in aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats. Propsilocerus akamusi (Tokunaga) is a dominant and ubiquitous chironomid species in Eastern Asia and its morphologically unique larvae are also considered as indicator organisms to detect water contamination, potential toxicity and waterborne pathogens. Since few studies to date have focused on the olfactory system of P. akamusi, our study aims to elucidate the potential functions of chemosensory genes in P. akamusi. In our study, we found that although signals released from male groups might attract female swarmers, it was a completely male-dominated mating process. Sequencing the transcriptome of P. akamusi on an Illumina HiSeq platform generated 4.42, 4.46 and 4.53 Gb of clean reads for heads, legs, and antennae, respectively. 27,609 unigenes, 20,379 coding sequences (CDSs), and 8,073 simple sequence repeats were finally obtained. The gene-level differential expression analysis demonstrated variants among three different tissues, including 2,019 genes specifically expressed in heads, 1,540 genes in legs, and 2,071 genes in antennae. Additionally, we identified an assortment of putative olfactory genes consisting of 34 odorant binding proteins, 17 odorant receptors, 32 gustatory receptors, 22 ionotropic receptors, six chemosensory proteins as well as 3 sensory neuron membrane proteins; their relative abundances in the above three tissues were also determined by RT-qPCR. Our finding could allow a more plausible understanding of certain olfaction-mediated behaviors in groups of this macroinvertebrate.

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Sex-specific variation in the antennal proteome of the migratory locust

Cited by 9 publications

References 59 publications

Impacts of Livestock Production on Grassland Grasshopper Disasters

Impacts of Livestock Production on Grassland Grasshopper Disasters

Locust Attack: Managing and Control Strategies by the Government of Pakistan

Identification and expression pattern of chemosensory genes in the transcriptome of Propsilocerus akamusi

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