RESEARCH (85%)
Current research includes:
Biology and integrated management of urban pests, with emphasis on cockroaches.
Chemical ecology, especially pheromone-medicated communication in cockroaches
and developing tools for monitoring pest populations. Lipid transport
in the hemolymph and pheromone transport in the antennae. Behavioral endocrinology
and regulation of the cockroach corpora allata and juvenile hormone production.
Use of rDNA polymorphism to understand gene flow in natural populations
of cockroaches as well as for use in phylogenetic studies of cockroaches.
Monitoring insecticide resistance in field-collected cockroaches, including
sexual selection, and mate-finding tactics.
Research
and Demonstration
- Laboratory testing
of stereochemicals of brown-banded sex pheromone.
- Field testing
of brown-banded sex pheromone.
- Field testing
of Oriental cockroach sex pheromone.
- Identification
of German cockroach sex pheromone.
- Role of lipoprotein
in transport of hydrcarbons and pheromones.
- Regulation of
hydrocarbon synthesis and transport
- Regulation of
pheromone production in cockroaches.
- Embryonic development
of the corpora allata.
- Insect Repellents.
- Development regulation
of insect endocrine glands.
- Physiological
control of behavior and food intake.
- Novel insecticides
and resistance patterns.
- Hortizontal transfer
of pesticides and pathogens in cockroaches.
- Action of insect
growth regulators.
- Field studies
of efficacy of cockroach control agents.
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