Sylvie Augustin

TL;DR: The effects caused by different insect invaders are reviewed according to their ecosystem roles, i.e. herbivores, predators, parasites, parasitoids and pollinators; the level of biological organisation at which they occur; and the direct and indirect mechanisms underlying these effects.

TL;DR: Test the potential of proteinase inhibitors to control Chrysomela tremulae, a beetle that causes severe damage in young plantations and in short-rotation intensive culture (SRIC) of poplar, and OCI, a cysteine proteinase inhibitor, was shown to inhibit this activity in vitro.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that European populations of C. ohridella may indeed derive from the southern Balkans, and high haplotype diversity and low measures of nucleotide diversities including a significantly negative Tajima’s D indicate that C. Ohridella has experienced rapid population expansion during its dispersal across Europe.

TL;DR: It is revealed that herbarium collections across Europe indicate a Balkan origin for C ohridella, and archival sequences confirm an identity of the highly invasive horse-chestnut leaf-mining moth and set back its history in Europe by more than a century.

TL;DR: This article used 454-based pyrosequencing to sample the larval midgut transcriptome of C. tremulae and identified candidate genes of putative Bt receptors including transcripts encoding cadherin-like proteins, aminopeptidase N and alkaline phosphatase.