A joint doctoral program to educate tomorrow’s insect pathologists: Solving disease problems in the upcoming insect rearing industry.

Project Information

INSECT DOCTORS

Grant agreement ID: 859850

DOI 10.3030/859850

EC signature date 9 August 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 4 201 844,76

EU contribution € 4 201 844,76

Coordinated by

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Netherlands

Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Report I on dissemination and communication activities

Report on dissemination and communication activities

Recruitment started

Recruitment started vacancies published interview sessions planned

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website online

Website online with public and consortiumonly sections

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Environment–host–parasite interactions in mass-reared insects

Author(s): Herren P, Hesketh H., Meyling NV, Dunn AM
Published in: Trends in Parasitology, Issue 39(7), 2023, 2023, Page(s) 588-602, ISSN 1471-4922
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.04.007

Advancing pathogen surveillance by nanopore sequencing and genotype characterization of Acheta domesticus densovirus in mass-reared house crickets

Author(s): Fang Shiang Lim, Joel González-Cabrera, Jens Keilwagen, Regina G. Kleespies, Johannes A. Jehle & Jörg T. Wennmann
Published in: Scienitifc Reports, Issue Volume 14, 2024, Page(s) 8528, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58768-3

Low sex drive and choosy females: fungal infections are a reproductive downfall for male house flies

Author(s): Sam Edwards, Eleanor Bath, Henrik H De Fine Licht
Published in: Behavioural Ecology, Issue Volume 35, 2024, Page(s) arae004, ISSN 1465-7279
Publisher: Oxford UnNiversity Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae004

Protists in the Insect Rearing Industry: Benign Passengers or Potential Risk?

Author(s): Edouard Bessette; Bryony Williams
Published in: Insects, Issue 13(5), 482, 2022, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects13050482

Bugs in Bugs: The Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Maintenance of Health in Mass-Reared Insects

Author(s): Carlotta Savio, Loretta Mugo-Kamiri, Jennifer K. Upfold
Published in: Insects, Issue 2022, 13(4), 376, 2022, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects13040376

Effects of Temperature and Density on House Cricket Survival and Growth and on the Prevalence of Acheta Domesticus Densovirus

Author(s): Takacs, Jozsef; Bryon, Astrid; Jensen, Annette B.; van Loon, Joop J.A.; Ros, Vera I.D.
Published in: Insects, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 588, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects14070588

A Rapid Method for Measuring In Vitro Growth in Entomopathogenic Fungi

Author(s): Anna R. Slowik; Helen Hesketh; Steven M. Sait; Henrik H. de Fine Licht
Published in: Insects, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 703, ISSN 2075-4450
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/insects14080703

The naked truth: An updated review on nudiviruses and their relationship to bracoviruses and baculoviruses

Author(s): Jirka M. Petersen, Annie Bézier, Jean-Michel Drezen, Monique M. van Oers
Published in: Invertebrate Pathology, Issue Volume 189, March 2022, 107718, 2022, ISSN 0022-2011
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2022.107718

Characterization and Tissue Tropism of Newly Identified Iflavirus and Negeviruses in Glossina morsitans morsitans Tsetse Flies

Author(s): Meki, I.K.; Huditz, H.-I.; Strunov, A.; van der Vlugt, R.A.A.; Kariithi, H.M.; Rezapanah, M.; Miller, W.J.; Vlak, J.M.; van Oers, M.M.; Abd-Alla, A.M.M.
Published in: Viruses, Issue 13(12), 2021, Page(s) 2472, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v13122472

Covert infection with an RNA virus affects medfly fitness and the interaction with its natural parasitoid Aganaspis daci

Author(s): Hernández-Pelegrín, Luis; García-Martínez, Ricardo; Llácer, Elena; Nieves, Lorena; Llopis-Giménez, Ángel; Catalá-Oltra, Marta; Dembilio, Óscar; Pérez-Hedo, Meritxell; Urbaneja, Alberto; Ros, Vera I.D.; Beitia, Francisco; Herrero, Salvador
Published in: Journal of Pest Science, Issue 97, 2023, Page(s) 269–280, ISSN 1612-4766
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10340-023-01617-5

Non-retroviral Endogenous Viral Elements in Tephritid Fruit Flies Reveal Former Viral Infections Not Related to Known Circulating Viruses

Author(s): Luis Hernández-Pelegrín, Vera I. D. Ros, Salvador Herrero & Cristina M. Crava
Published in: MIcrobial Ecology, Issue 87, 2023, Page(s) 7, ISSN 1432-184X
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-023-02310-x

First Evidence of Past and Present Interactions between Viruses and the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens

Author(s): Robert D. Pienaar, Clément Gilbert, Carole Belliardo, Salvador Herrero and Elisabeth A. Herniou
Published in: Viruses, Issue 14(6), 2022, Page(s) 1274, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v14061274

Expanding the Medfly Virome: Viral Diversity, Prevalence, and sRNA Profiling in Mass-Reared and Field-Derived Medflies

Author(s): Luis Hernández-Pelegrín; Ángel Llopis-Giménez; Cristina Maria Crava; Félix Ortego; Pedro Hernández-Crespo; Vera I. D. Ros; Salvador Herrero
Published in: Viruses, Issue 14(3), 2022, Page(s) 623, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v14030623

Rearing zombie flies: Laboratory culturing of the behaviourally manipulating fungal pathogen Entomophthora muscae

Author(s): Sam Edwards Henrik H. De Fine Licht
Published in: Methods X, Issue Volume 12, 2023, Page(s) 102523,, ISSN 2215-0161
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102523