Evaluation of recombinant toxin JFTX-23, an oral-effective anti-insect peptide from the spider Selenocosmia jiafu venom gland proteome.

Excessive utilization of chemical pesticides for pest control can lead to adverse consequences for the health of humans and other organisms and may also cause irreversible ecological changes; therefore, the use of biologically derived insecticides can be a safe alternate strategy. Transcriptomic studies have shown JFTX- 23,a small peptide from the spider Selenocosmia jiafuis highly similar to U1-TRTX-Sp1, a well-characterized oral-effective insecticide toxin from the Australian tarantula Selenotypus plumipes. First, we evaluated the JFTX-23 peptide sequence using bioinformatics tools and modeling studies.

Review of the Iranian species of Pachylaelapidae, with description of a new species of Onchodellus (Acari: Mesostigmata).

A new pachylaelapid mite species of the genus Onchodellus, O. masani sp. nov.

Wisteria Vein Mosaic Virus Detected for the First Time in Iran from an Unknown Host by Analysis of Aphid Vectors.

The development of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using degenerate primers against conserved regions of most potyviral genomes enabled sampling of the potyvirome. However, these assays usually involve sampling potential host plants, but identifying infected plants when they are asymptomatic is challenging, and many plants, especially wild ones, contain inhibitors to DNA amplification. We used an alternative approach which utilized aphid vectors and indicator plants to identify potyviruses capable of infecting common bean ().

Two new mite species of the genus Berlese from Mexico (Acari, Mesostigmata).

Two new species of mites of the genus Berlese, and , collected from moss and flood debris, respectively, in a creek in Chiapas State, Mexico, are described herein.

Predicting habitat distribution of five heteropteran pest species in Iran.

In agroecosystems, potential species distribution models are extensively applied in pest management strategies, revealing species ecological requirements and demonstrating relationships between species distribution and predictive variables. The Maximum Entropy model was used to predict the potential distribution of five heteropteran key pests in Iran, namely Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze) (Hemiptera: Miridae), Lygus pratensis (L.), Apodiphus amygdali (Germar) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), Nezara viridula (L.