Thomas W. Sappington

Potential for transport of boll weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to the cotton gin within cotton modules.

Boll weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) survival through cotton gin trash fans.

Potential for escape of live boll weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) into cottonseed, motes, and cleaned lint at the cotton gin.

Dispersal of boll weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from cotton modules before ginning.

Molecular genetic variation of boll weevil populations in North America estimated with microsatellites: implications for patterns of dispersal.

Dispersal of newly eclosed European corn borer adults (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from corn into small-grain aggregation plots.

Impact of trap design, windbreaks, and weather on captures of European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in pheromone-baited traps.

Genetic diversity in laboratory colonies of western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), including a nondiapause colony.

Effect of age and mating status on adult European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) dispersal from small-grain aggregation plots.

Utility of EST-derived SSRs as population genetics markers in a beetle.

A core set of microsatellite markers for western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) population genetics studies.

Increased survival of western corn rootworm on transgenic corn within three generations of on-plant greenhouse selection.

Genetic profiling to determine potential origins of boll weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) captured in a Texas eradication zone: endemicity, immigration, or sabotage?

Molecular diagnostic for boll weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on amplification of three species-specific microsatellites.

Comparative performance of single nucleotide polymorphism and microsatellite markers for population genetic analysis.

Spatial and temporal genetic analyses show high gene flow among European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations across the central U.S. corn belt.

Mitochondrial DNA variation and range expansion in western bean cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): no evidence for a recent population bottleneck.

Multidisciplinary fingerprints: forensic reconstruction of an insect reinvasion.

PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae).

Cloning of the heat shock protein 90 and 70 genes from the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, and expression characteristics in relation to thermal stress and development.

Conducting public-sector research on commercialized transgenic seed: in search of a paradigm that works.

Evaluation of tolerance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins among laboratory-reared western bean cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

Early Detection and Mitigation of Resistance to Bt Maize by Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).

Haplotype Profile Comparisons Between Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Populations From Mexico With Those From Puerto Rico, South America, and the United States and Their Implications to Migratory Behavior.

Biocontrol of the oriental armyworm, Mythimna separata, by the tachinid fly Exorista civilis is synergized by Cry1Ab protoxin.

Population Projection and Development of the Mythimna loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) as Affected by Temperature: Application of an Age-Stage, Two-Sex Life Table.

Effects of Moth Age and Rearing Temperature on the Flight Performance of the Loreyi Leafworm, Mythimna loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in Tethered and Free Flight.

Genomic mechanisms of sympatric ecological and sexual divergence in a model agricultural pest, the European corn borer.

Influence of host plant, geography and pheromone strain on genomic differentiation in sympatric populations of Ostrinia nubilalis.