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Astrid T. Groot

Researcher at University of Amsterdam

Publications -  115
Citations -  4190

Astrid T. Groot is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sex pheromone & Pheromone. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 105 publications receiving 3517 citations. Previous affiliations of Astrid T. Groot include North Carolina State University & Max Planck Society.

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RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

Olle Terenius, +78 more
TL;DR: Despite a large variation in the data, trends that are found are that RNAi is particularly successful in the family Saturniidae and in genes involved in immunity and that gene expression in epidermal tissues seems to be most difficult to silence.
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Two genomes of highly polyphagous lepidopteran pests (Spodoptera frugiperda, Noctuidae) with different host-plant ranges

Anaïs Gouin, +68 more
- 25 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: Signs of positive selection in genes involved in chemoreception, detoxification and digestion, and copy number variation in the two latter gene families are found, suggesting an adaptive role for structural variation.
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Insect-resistant transgenic plants in a multi-trophic context

TL;DR: The effects of insect- resistant crops and insect-resistant transgenic crops, especially Bt crops, from a food web perspective are summarized and target herbivores, non-target herbivore, pollinators, parasitoids and predators are distinguished.
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Allelic variation in a fatty-acyl reductase gene causes divergence in moth sex pheromones

TL;DR: This is the first functional characterization of a gene contributing to intraspecific behavioural reproductive isolation in moths, highlighting the importance of evolutionary diversification in a lepidopteran-specific family of reductases.
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Host strain specific sex pheromone variation in Spodoptera frugiperda

TL;DR: Finding the genetic basis of the pheromone differences, as well as these other biological traits, will help to elucidate the role of premating isolation in the continuing differentiation of these two strains that may eventually lead to speciation.