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Alex Protasov
Researcher at Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center
Publications - 42
Citations - 793
Alex Protasov is an academic researcher from Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gall wasp & Mealybug. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 38 publications receiving 652 citations.
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Natural History of the Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea spp.): New Insights in Relation to Climate Change
Andrea Battisti,Mustafa Avci,Dimitrios N. Avtzis,Mohamed Lahbib Ben Jamaa,Laura Berardi,Wahiba Berretima,Manuela Branco,Gahdab Chakali,Moulay Ahmed El Alaoui El Fels,Brigitte Frérot,José A. Hódar,Irina Ionescu-Mălăncuş,Kahraman İpekdal,Stig Larsson,Traian Manole,Zvi Mendel,Nicolas Meurisse,Plamen Mirchev,Nabil Nemer,Maria Rosa Paiva,Juan Pino,Alex Protasov,Noureddine Rahim,Jérôme Rousselet,Helena Santos,Helena Santos,Daniel Sauvard,Axel Schopf,Mauro Simonato,Annie Yart,Mohamed Zamoum +30 more
TL;DR: It is difficult to find a genus of Lepidoptera showing the high variability of life history traits observed in Thaumetopoea, but in one special case a recent switch has been detected even within one species, the pine processionary moth, indicating that the natural history traits are constantly evolving at a fast rate.
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Biological control of the eucalyptus gall wasp Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead): Taxonomy and biology of the parasitoid species Closterocerus chamaeleon (Girault), with information on its establishment in Israel
TL;DR: Closterocerus chamaeleon seems to be an efficient agent and has already lowered the population density of its host galler in some locations after less than a year since its release, demonstrated by its occupying areas 120 km away from the release point in less of a year.
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Occurrence of two local Megastigmus species parasitic on the eucalyptus gall wasp Leptocybe invasa in Israel and Turkey
TL;DR: Two local Megastigmus species were found to be parasitoids on the invasive Eucalyptus gall waspLeptocybe invasa in Turkey and Israel and the biology, distribution and potential efficiency as biological control agents are discussed.
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Symbiotic association of three fungal species throughout the life cycle of the ambrosia beetle Euwallacea nr. fornicatus
Stanley Freeman,Michal Sharon,Mally Dori-Bachash,Marcel Maymon,Eduard Belausov,Yonatan Maoz,Omer Margalit,Alex Protasov,Zvi Mendel +8 more
TL;DR: Fungal mandibular mycangial loads at each of the adult beetle stages among all tested plant hosts were uniform, while larvae-fungal combinations varied extensively between the sampled sites regardless of the host species; a similar trend of inconsistency for the three fungal combinations was also observed in the galleries.
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Obligate feed requirement of Fusarium sp. nov., an avocado wilting agent, by the ambrosia beetle Euwallacea aff. fornicata
Stanley Freeman,Alex Protasov,Michal Sharon,K. M. Mohotti,Miriam Eliyahu,Neta Okon-Levy,Marcel Maymon,Zvi Mendel +7 more
TL;DR: The ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea aff.