The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, is a phytophagous pest that can cause
significant yield losses in many agricultural crops, including fruits, cotton, vegetables, and …

… population size such that heterozygosity at some time in the future (H t ) is a function of initial
heterozygosity (H 0 ) minus that initial value divided by the effective population size (N E ), …

… 2e) and on the variance in the distance dispersed [F 1,31 … 3e). This indicates that relatedness
mostly affected the tail of the dispersal distribution. This is also shown by the significant …

… information on the protocol, please see the electronic supplementary material, I). Young adult
… densities (see §2 and the electronic supplementary material 1 for a detailed explanation). …

… Bitume is funded by: Fonds pour la recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA
grant 1.EO25.09), from the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (grant n ARC 10/15-031 …

… on percent of eggs that hatched with the E × E and E f … S × E cross, with females being overall
larger (effect of sex: χ 2 … for the E × C cross, although overall, females tended to be larger. …

Evolutionary theory predicts that the process of range expansion will lead to differences in
life‐history and dispersal traits between the core and edge of a population. At the edge, …

Dispersal is a key ecological process that is strongly influenced by both phenotype and
environment. Here, we show that juvenile environment influences dispersal not only by shaping …

Egg diapause in Locusta migratoria L. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) is believed to be influenced
by maternal photoperiod. However, the molecular mechanism regulating the phenomenon of …

… in phenotypes related to both fecundity and host preference (Bitume et al., 2017), the abundance
of … The laboratory crosses found by Bitume et al. (2017) to be the most fecund relative to …