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List of works by Gregory A. Sword

A role for phenotypic plasticity in the evolution of aposematism

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2002)

An experimental analysis of grasshopper community responses to fire and livestock grazing in a northern mixed-grass prairie

scientific article

Assessment and validation of a suite of reverse transcription-quantitative PCR reference genes for analyses of density-dependent behavioural plasticity in the Australian plague locust.

scientific article

Behavioural phase change in the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is triggered by tactile stimulation of the antennae

scientific article published on 8 May 2010

Behavioural phase polyphenism in the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)

scientific article

Cannibal crickets on a forced march for protein and salt

scientific article

Cannibalism can drive the evolution of behavioural phase polyphenism in locusts

scientific article published on August 8, 2012

Challenges to assessing connectivity between massive populations of the Australian plague locust

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands

scientific article

Developmental specialization and geographic structure of host plant use in a polyphagous grasshopper, Schistocerca emarginata (=lineata) (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

scientific article published in August 1999

Do outbreaks affect genetic population structure? A worldwide survey in Locusta migratoria, a pest plagued by microsatellite null alleles.

scientific article

Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera

scientific article published on 15 September 2008

Endophytic Lecanicillium lecanii and Beauveria bassiana reduce the survival and fecundity of Aphis gossypii following contact with conidia and secondary metabolites

Endophytic fungi alter sucking bug responses to cotton reproductive structures.

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Evaluation of potential reference genes for reverse transcription-qPCR studies of physiological responses in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Evidence for widespread genomic methylation in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

scientific article

Evolution: radiotracking sexual selection

scientific article published in October 2008

Evolving migration

scientific article published on September 15, 2010

First draft genome assembly of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Host plant-associated genetic differentiation in the snakeweed grasshopper, Hesperotettix viridis (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

scientific article published in June 2005

In vitro and in planta compatibility of insecticides and the endophytic entomopathogen, Lecanicillium lecanii

scientific article published on 20 March 2011

Locusts

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Locusts and Grasshoppers: Behavior, Ecology, and Biogeography

scholarly article by Alexandre Latchininsky et al published 2011 in Psyche

Long microsatellites and unusually high levels of genetic diversity in the Orthoptera

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Migratory bands give crickets protection

scientific article published in Nature

Mitochondrial genomes reveal the global phylogeography and dispersal routes of the migratory locust.

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Molecular characterization, spatial-temporal expression and magnetic response patterns of iron-sulfur cluster assembly1 (IscA1) in the rice planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Nutritional state and collective motion: from individuals to mass migration

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

Patterns of genomic and allochronic strain divergence in the fall armyworm, <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (J.E. Smith)

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Phase polyphenism and preventative locust management

scientific article published on 27 May 2010

Polyphenism in insects

scientific article

Predator percolation, insect outbreaks, and phase polyphenism

scientific article published on 18 December 2008

Radiotelemetric analysis of the effects of prevailing wind direction on Mormon cricket migratory band movement

scientific article published in August 2008

Tapping Into the Cotton Fungal Phytobiome for Novel Nematode Biological Control Tools

scientific article published in 2020

Tasty on the outside, but toxic in the middle: grasshopper regurgitation and host plant-mediated toxicity to a vertebrate predator

scientific article published on 3 March 2001

Taxa-specific heat shock proteins are over-expressed with crowding in the Australian plague locust

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

The Social Context of Cannibalism in Migratory Bands of the Mormon Cricket

scientific article

The importance of palpation in food selection by a polyphagous grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

To be or not to be a locust? A comparative analysis of behavioral phase change in nymphs of Schistocerca americana and S. gregaria

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Using field data to test locust migratory band collective movement models

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