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List of works by Thomas Van Leeuwen

A G326E substitution in the glutamate-gated chloride channel 3 (GluCl3) of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae abolishes the agonistic activity of macrocyclic lactones

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

A Gene Family Coding for Salivary Proteins (SHOT) of the Polyphagous Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae Exhibits Fast Host-Dependent Transcriptional Plasticity.

scientific article

A burst of ABC genes in the genome of the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae.

scientific article

A gene horizontally transferred from bacteria protects arthropods from host plant cyanide poisoning

scientific article

A genomic analysis and transcriptomic atlas of gene expression in Psoroptes ovis reveals feeding- and stage-specific patterns of allergen expression

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

A glutathione-S-transferase (TuGSTd05) associated with acaricide resistance in Tetranychus urticae directly metabolizes the complex II inhibitor cyflumetofen

scientific article

A link between host plant adaptation and pesticide resistance in the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

A massive incorporation of microbial genes into the genome of Tetranychus urticae, a polyphagous arthropod herbivore.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

A mutation in the PSST homologue of complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) from Tetranychus urticae is associated with resistance to METI acaricides

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-analysis of trypanosome prevalence in tsetse flies

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A unique genetic code change in the mitochondrial genome of the parasitic nematode Radopholus similis

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Acaricide resistance and resistance mechanisms in Tetranychus urticae populations from rose greenhouses in the Netherlands

scientific article

Acaricide resistance mechanisms in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae and other important Acari: a review

scientific article published on 08 June 2010

Acaricide resistance status and identification of resistance mutations in populations of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae from Ethiopia

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Acetylcholinesterase point mutations in European strains of Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) resistant to organophosphates

scientific article published in February 2010

Adaptation of a polyphagous herbivore to a novel host plant extensively shapes the transcriptome of herbivore and host.

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Adaptive divergence and post-zygotic barriers to gene flow between sympatric populations of a herbivorous mite

scientific article published in 2021

Analysis of the Olive Fruit Fly Bactrocera oleae Transcriptome and Phylogenetic Classification of the Major Detoxification Gene Families

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Angiotensin-converting enzyme in Spodoptera littoralis: molecular characterization, expression and activity profile during development

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Application of two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae for plant-pest interaction studies

scientific article

Bacterial origin of a diverse family of UDP-glycosyltransferase genes in the Tetranychus urticae genome

scientific article

Biochemical analysis of a chlorfenapyr-selected resistant strain of Tetranychus urticae Koch

scientific article published in May 2006

Combined Activity of DCL2 and DCL3 Is Crucial in the Defense against Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid

scientific article

Comparative acaricide susceptibility and detoxifying enzyme activities in field-collected resistant and susceptible strains of Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published in May 2005

Comparative genome-wide transcriptome analysis of Vitis vinifera responses to adapted and non-adapted strains of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranyhus urticae.

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Complete maternal inheritance of bifenazate resistance in Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) and its implications in mode of action considerations

scientific article published on 3 September 2006

Complex Evolutionary Dynamics of Massively Expanded Chemosensory Receptor Families in an Extreme Generalist Chelicerate Herbivore

scientific article

Convergent evolution of cytochrome P450s underlies independent origins of keto-carotenoid pigmentation in animals

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Correction to: Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Correction: Analysis of the Olive Fruit Fly Bactrocera oleae Transcriptome and Phylogenetic Classification of the Major Detoxification Gene Families

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Correction: Protocols for the delivery of small molecules to the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Costs and benefits of multiple mating in a species with first-male sperm precedence

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Cross-resistance risk of the novel complex II inhibitors cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen in resistant strains of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Development of acaricide resistance in Pacific spider mite (Tetranychus pacificus) from California vineyards.

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

Disruption of a horizontally transferred phytoene desaturase abolishes carotenoid accumulation and diapause in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Diversity and evolution of the P450 family in arthropods

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Does host plant adaptation lead to pesticide resistance in generalist herbivores?

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Draft Genome Assembly of the False Spider Mite

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Draft Genome Assembly of the Poultry Red Mite,

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Draft Genome Assembly of the Sheep Scab Mite, Psoroptes ovis.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Effects of spirodiclofen on reproduction in a susceptible and resistant strain of Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae).

scientific article published on 20 December 2008

Empirically simulated spatial sorting points at fast epigenetic changes in dispersal behaviour

article published in 2015

Erratum for Navia et al., "Draft Genome Assembly of the False Spider Mite Brevipalpus yothersi"

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Esterase-mediated bifenthrin resistance in a multiresistant strain of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

scientific article

Feeding History Affects Intraguild Interactions between Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae).

scientific article published on June 2015

Fenpyroximate resistance in Iranian populations of the European red mite Panonychus ulmi (Acari: Tetranychidae)

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

First record in Belgium of Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), an egg parasitoid of economically important stink bugs (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Fitness costs of key point mutations that underlie acaricide target-site resistance in the two-spotted spider mite

Functional characterization of glutathione S-transferases associated with insecticide resistance in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Genetic analysis and cross-resistance spectrum of a laboratory-selected chlorfenapyr resistant strain of two-spotted spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae).

scientific article

Genetic and biochemical analysis of a laboratory-selected spirodiclofen-resistant strain of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae).

scientific article

Genome sequence of the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, reveals insights into its biology, genetics, and evolution

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Genome streamlining in a minute herbivore that manipulates its host plant

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Genome wide gene-expression analysis of facultative reproductive diapause in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae.

scientific article

Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Genome-wide gene expression profiling reveals that cuticle alterations and P450 detoxification are associated with deltamethrin and DDT resistance in Anopheles arabiensis populations from Ethiopia

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Genome-wide gene expression profiling reveals that cuticle alterations and P450 detoxification are associated with pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles arabiensis populations from Ethiopia

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Genotype to phenotype, the molecular and physiological dimensions of resistance in arthropods

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Geographical distribution and molecular insights into abamectin and milbemectin cross-resistance in European field populations of Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

High resolution genetic mapping uncovers chitin synthase-1 as the target-site of the structurally diverse mite growth inhibitors clofentezine, hexythiazox and etoxazole in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article

High-resolution QTL mapping in Tetranychus urticae reveals acaricide-specific responses and common target-site resistance after selection by different METI-I acaricides

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributes to the Evolution of Arthropod Herbivory.

scientific article

Hormetic effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on Rhizoglyphus robini (Acari: Acaridae)

scientific article published in 2023

Identification and characterization of new mutations in mitochondrial cytochrome b that confer resistance to bifenazate and acequinocyl in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Identification and characterization of striking multiple-insecticide resistance in a Tetranychus urticae field population from Greece

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Identification and functional characterization of a novel acetyl-CoA carboxylase mutation associated with ketoenol resistance in Bemisia tabaci

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Identification and geographical distribution of pyrethroid resistance mutations in the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Identifying drivers of spatio-temporal dynamics in Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus epidemiology as a critical factor in disease control

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

Imperfect diet choice reduces the performance of a predatory mite

scientific article published in 2023

Improving the compatibility of pesticides and predatory mites: recent findings on physiological and ecological selectivity

scientific article published on 04 April 2020

Incidence of spiromesifen resistance and resistance mechanisms in Tetranychus urticae populations collected from strawberry production areas in Turkey

scientific article published in 2022

Interactions With Plant Defences Isolate Sympatric Populations of an Herbivorous Mite

scientific article published on 29 April 2022

Intradiol ring cleavage dioxygenases from herbivorous spider mites as a new detoxification enzyme family in animals

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Intradiol ring cleavage dioxygenases from herbivorous spider mites as a new detoxification enzyme family in animals

scientific article published in 2022

Is the emerging mite pest Aculops lycopersici controllable? Global and genome-based insights in its biology and management

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Kin competition accelerates experimental range expansion in an arthropod herbivore.

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Life-history evolution in response to changes in metapopulation structure in an arthropod herbivore

scholarly article by Annelies De Roissart et al published 4 January 2016 in Functional Ecology

Local adaptation of aboveground herbivores towards plant phenotypes induced by soil biota

scientific article

Long-Term Population Studies Uncover the Genome Structure and Genetic Basis of Xenobiotic and Host Plant Adaptation in the Herbivore Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Mapping insecticide resistance and characterization of resistance mechanisms in Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae) in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 2 September 2017

Mechanisms of Acaricide Resistance in the Two-Spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae

Microbial community of predatory bugs of the genus Macrolophus (Hemiptera: Miridae).

scientific article

Mitochondrial genome analysis of the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis and a revisit of the Metaseiulus occidentalis mitochondrial genome

scientific article published in April 2010

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy and the evolution of insecticide resistance: non-Mendelian inheritance in action

scholarly article

Molecular analysis of cyenopyrafen resistance in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Molecular analysis of resistance to acaricidal spirocyclic tetronic acids in Tetranychus urticae: CYP392E10 metabolizes spirodiclofen, but not its corresponding enol

scientific article

Molecular and genetic analysis of resistance to METI-I acaricides in Iranian populations of the citrus red mite Panonychus citri

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Molecular characterization of pyrethroid resistance in the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae

article by Nena Pavlidi et al published June 2018 in Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

Mutations in the mitochondrial cytochrome b of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) confer cross-resistance between bifenazate and acequinocyl

scientific article published in April 2009

Organophosphate insecticides and acaricides antagonise bifenazate toxicity through esterase inhibition in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published in December 2007

Overexpression of an alternative allele of carboxyl/choline esterase 4 (CCE04) of Tetranychus urticae is associated with high levels of resistance to the keto-enol acaricide spirodiclofen

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Phytoseiid mites prey effectively on thrips eggs: Evidence from predation trials and molecular analyses

scientific article published in 2019

Point mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene associated with pyrethroid resistance in Iranian populations of the European red mite Panonychus ulmi

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Population bulk segregant mapping uncovers resistance mutations and the mode of action of a chitin synthesis inhibitor in arthropods

scientific article published on 5 March 2012

Potential of two omnivorous iolinid mites as predators of the tomato russet mite, Aculops lycopersici

scientific article published in 2022

Preface to the special issue: Recent trends in insecticide mode of action and resistance

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Protocols for the delivery of small molecules to the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

scientific article

QTL mapping suggests that both cytochrome P450-mediated detoxification and target-site resistance are involved in fenbutatin oxide resistance in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published in 2022

QTL mapping using microsatellite linkage reveals target-site mutations associated with high levels of resistance against three mitochondrial complex II inhibitors in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Reciprocal responses in the interaction between Arabidopsis and the cell-content-feeding chelicerate herbivore spider mite

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Reduced proinsecticide activation by cytochrome P450 confers coumaphos resistance in the major bee parasite

scientific article published in 2021

Resistance incidence and presence of resistance mutations in populations of Tetranychus urticae from vegetable crops in Turkey

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Resistance mutation conserved between insects and mites unravels the benzoylurea insecticide mode of action on chitin biosynthesis

scientific article

Resistance to acaricides in Italian strains of Tetranychus urticae: toxicological and enzymatic assays

scientific article published on 24 March 2012

Salivary proteins of spider mites suppress defenses in Nicotiana benthamiana and promote mite reproduction

scientific article

Short term transcriptional responses of P450s to phytochemicals in insects and mites

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Significance and interpretation of molecular diagnostics for insecticide resistance management of agricultural pests

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Spatio-temporal Influences on Cereal Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Population Dynamics and the Incidence of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus

scientific article published on 22 July 2022

Spider mite control and resistance management: does a genome help?

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Structural Characterization of a Eukaryotic Cyanase from Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Structural and functional characterization of an intradiol ring-cleavage dioxygenase from the polyphagous spider mite herbivore Tetranychus urticae Koch

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

Structural and functional characterization of β-cyanoalanine synthase from Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published in March 2022

Substrate specificity and promiscuity of horizontally transferred UDP-glycosyltransferases in the generalist herbivore Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Susceptibility of an organophosphate resistant strain of the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) to mixtures of bifenazate with organophosphate and carbamate insecticides

scientific article

Susceptibility of the predatory stinkbug Picromerus bidens to selected insecticides

scholarly article by Kamran Mahdian et al published 25 February 2007 in BioControl

Targeted mutagenesis using CRISPR-Cas9 in the chelicerate herbivore Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Tetranychus urticae mites do not mount an induced immune response against bacteria.

scientific article published in June 2017

The ABC gene family in arthropods: comparative genomics and role in insecticide transport and resistance

scientific article

The Molecular Evolution of Xenobiotic Metabolism and Resistance in Chelicerate Mites

scientific article published on March 2016

The Salivary Protein Repertoire of the Polyphagous Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae: A Quest for Effectors.

scientific article

The complete mitochondrial genome of the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart): a novel gene arrangement among arthropods

scientific article

The control of eriophyoid mites: state of the art and future challenges

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

The control of eriophyoid mites: state of the art and future challenges

The cyclic keto-enol insecticide spirotetramat inhibits insect and spider mite acetyl-CoA carboxylases by interfering with the carboxyltransferase partial reaction

scientific article

The economic importance of acaricides in the control of phytophagous mites and an update on recent acaricide mode of action research

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

The effect of insecticide synergist treatment on genome-wide gene expression in a polyphagous pest

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations

scientific article

The genome of the extremophile Artemia provides insight into strategies to cope with extreme environments

scientific article published on 31 August 2021

The physiology of movement

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

The presence of root-feeding nematodes – Not AMF – Affects an herbivore dispersal strategy

scientific article published in 2013

The relative contribution of target-site mutations in complex acaricide resistant phenotypes as assessed by marker assisted backcrossing in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

The role of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) in insecticide resistance in crop pests and disease vectors

scholarly article by Nena Pavlidi et al published June 2018 in Current opinion in insect science

Tomato Whole Genome Transcriptional Response to Tetranychus urticae Identifies Divergence of Spider Mite-Induced Responses Between Tomato and Arabidopsis.

scientific article published on March 2015

Toxicity of selected insecticides to the two-spot ladybird Adalia bipunctata

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Trait mapping in diverse arthropods by bulked segregant analysis

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Transcriptome profiling of a spirodiclofen susceptible and resistant strain of the European red mite Panonychus ulmi using strand-specific RNA-seq

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Transcriptomic Plasticity in the Arthropod Generalist Upon Long-Term Acclimation to Different Host Plants

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Transcriptomic responses of the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae and its symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola to olive feeding

scientific article

Untangling a Gordian knot: the role of a GluCl3 I321T mutation in abamectin resistance in Tetranychus urticae

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Using CRISPR/Cas9 genome modification to understand the genetic basis of insecticide resistance: Drosophila and beyond

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Why Do Herbivorous Mites Suppress Plant Defenses?

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Distribution and genetic diversity of the invasive pest Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) in Belgium

scientific article published in 2024