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Nicky Wybouw
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Results
2024
Adaptation of an arthropod predator to a challenging environment is associated with a loss of a genome-wide plastic transcriptional response
Sabina Bajda-Wybouw
Nicky Wybouw
Viet Ha Nguyen
Patrick De Clercq
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
2024
Molecular basis and fitness costs of xenobiotic resistance in the polyphagous pest Tetranychus urticae
Christine Njiru
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Nicky Wybouw
Dissertation
2024
2023
A salivary GMC oxidoreductase of Manduca sexta re-arranges the green leaf volatile profile of its host plant
Yu-Hsien Lin
Juliette J. M. Silven
Nicky Wybouw
Richard A. Fandino
Henk L. Dekker
Heiko Vogel
Yueh-Lung Wu
Chris de Koster
Ewald Große-Wilde
Michel A. Haring
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2023
Cardinium symbionts are pervasive in Iranian populations of the spider mite Panonychus ulmi despite inducing an infection cost and no demonstrable reproductive phenotypes when Wolbachia is a symbiotic partner
Nastaran Haghshenas-Gorgabi
Nafiseh Poorjavd
Jahangir Khajehali
Nicky Wybouw
A1
Journal Article
in
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
2023
Egg provisioning explains the penetrance of symbiont-mediated sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids
Nicky Wybouw
Emma Van Reempts
Jens Zarka
Flore Zélé
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
HEREDITY
2023
Host adaptation and specialization in Tetranychidae mites
Kristie Bruinsma
Cristina Rioja
Vladimir Zhurov
Maria Estrella Santamaria
Vicent Arbona
Marie Navarro
Marc Cazaux
Philippe Auger
Alain Migeon
Nicky Wybouw
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
2023
Incomplete reproductive barriers and genomic differentiation impact the spread of resistance mutations between green- and red-colour morphs of a cosmopolitan mite pest
Wenxin Xue
Jing-Tao Sun
Johan Witters
Marilou Vandenhole
Wannes Dermauw
Sabina Bajda-Wybouw
Eba Alemayehu Simma
Nicky Wybouw
Ernesto Villacis Perez
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
2023
The complex II resistance mutation H258Y in succinate dehydrogenase subunit B causes fitness penalties associated with mitochondrial respiratory deficiency
Christine Njiru
Corinna Saalwaechter
Konstantinos Mavridis
John Vontas
Sven Geibel
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
2023
The host plant strongly modulates acaricide resistance levels to mitochondrial complex II inhibitors in a multi-resistant field population of Tetranychus urticae
Christine Njiru
Marilou Vandenhole
Wim Jonckheere
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
2023
Transcriptomic plasticity in the arthropod generalist Tetranychus urticae upon long-term acclimation to different host plants (vol 8, pg 3865, 2018)
Simon Snoeck
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Wannes Dermauw
Correction
2023
2022
A H258Y mutation in subunit B of the succinate dehydrogenase complex of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae confers resistance to cyenopyrafen and pyflubumide, but likely reinforces cyflumetofen binding and toxicity
Christine Njiru
Corinna Saalwaechter
Oliver Gutbrod
Sven Geibel
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2022
Genomic diversity across the Rickettsia and ‘Candidatus Megaira’ genera and proposal of genus status for the Torix group
Helen R. Davison
Jack Pilgrim
Nicky Wybouw
Joseph Parker
Stacy Pirro
Simon Hunter-Barnett
Paul M. Campbell
Frances Blow
Alistair C. Darby
Gregory D. D. Hurst
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2022
Interacting host modifier systems control Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite
Nicky Wybouw
Frederik Mortier
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
EVOLUTION LETTERS
2022
Intradiol ring cleavage dioxygenases from herbivorous spider mites as a new detoxification enzyme family in animals
Christine Njiru
Wenxin Xue
Sander De Rouck
Juan M. Alba
Merijn R. Kant
Maksymilian Chruszcz
Bartel Vanholme
Wannes Dermauw
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
BMC BIOLOGY
2022
Structural and functional characterization of beta-cyanoalanine synthase from Tetranychus urticae
Leily Daneshian
Isabella Renggli
Ryan Hanaway
Lesa R. Offermann
Caleb R. Schlachter
Shannon Henry
Rahul Prakash
Nicky Wybouw
Wannes Dermauw
Linda S. Shimizu
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2022
Intersexuality in a natural population of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber
Jens Zarka
Thomas Parmentier
Nicky Wybouw
A1
Journal Article
in
ZOOKEYS
2022
2021
High-resolution genetic mapping reveals cis-regulatory and copy number variation in loci associated with cytochrome P450-mediated detoxification in a generalist arthropod pest
Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii
Nicky Wybouw
Andre Kurlovs
Dimitra Tsakireli
Spiros A. Pergantis
Richard M. Clark
John Vontas
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS GENETICS
2021
The G126S substitution in mitochondrially encoded cytochrome b does not confer bifenazate resistance in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Wenxin Xue
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY
2021
2020
Genetic basis of acaricide resistance : identification and characterization of the risk and mechanisms of resistance to bifenazate, acequinocyl, and the novel acaricide pyflubumide in Tetranychus urticae
Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii
S.B.J. Menken
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Nicky Wybouw
Dissertation
2020
Genome streamlining in a minute herbivore that manipulates its host plant
Robert Greenhalgh
Wannes Dermauw
Joris J. Glas
Stephane Rombauts
Nicky Wybouw
Jainy Thomas
Juan M. Alba
Ellen J. Pritham
Saioa Legarrea
René Feyereisen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
ELIFE
2020
Identification and characterization of new mutations in mitochondrial cytochrome b that confer resistance to bifenazate and acequinocyl in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii
Zoë Tan
Wenxin Xue
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
2020
Resistance risk assessment of the novel complex II inhibitor pyflubumide in the polyphagous pest Tetranychus urticae
Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii
Catherine Mermans
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE
2020
The physiology of movement
Steven Goossens
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
2020
2019
Convergent evolution of cytochrome P450s underlies independent origins of keto-carotenoid pigmentation in animals
Nicky Wybouw
Andre Kurlovs
Robert Greenhalgh
Astrid Bryon
Olivia Kosterlitz
Yuki Manabe
Masahiro Osakabe
John Vontas
Richard M Clark
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2019
Draft genome assembly of the false spider mite Brevipalpus yothersi
Denise Navia
Valdenice M. Novelli
Stephane Rombauts
Juliana Freitas-Astua
Renata Santos de Mendonca
Maria Andreia Nunes
Marcos A. Machado
Yao-Cheng Lin
Phuong LE
Zaichao Zhang
et al.
A2
Journal Article
in
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
2019
Long-term population studies uncover the genome structure and genetic basis of xenobiotic and host plant adaptation in the herbivore Tetranychus urticae
Nicky Wybouw
Olivia Kosterlitz
Andre Kurlovs
Sabina Bajda-Wybouw
Robert Greenhalgh
Simon Snoeck
Huyen Bui
Astrid Bryon
Wannes Dermauw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
GENETICS
2019
Structural and functional characterization of an intradiol ring-cleavage dioxygenase from the polyphagous spider mite herbivore Tetranychus urticae Koch
Caleb R Schlachter
Leily Daneshian
Jose Amaya
Vincent Klapper
Nicky Wybouw
Tomasz Borowski
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Vojislava Grbic
Miodrag Grbic
Thomas M Makris
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2019
2018
A massive incorporation of microbial genes into the genome of Tetranychus urticae, a polyphagous arthropod herbivore
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Wannes Dermauw
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2018
Fitness costs of key point mutations that underlie acaricide target-site resistance in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Sabina Bajda-Wybouw
Maria Riga
Nicky Wybouw
Stavrini Papadaki
Eleni Ouranou
Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii
John Vontas
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
2018
Kin competition accelerates experimental range expansion in an arthropod herbivore
Katrien Van Petegem
Felix Moerman
Maxime Dahirel
Emanuel A Fronhofer
Martijn L. Vandegehuchte
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Nicky Wybouw
Robby Stoks
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY LETTERS
2018
Molecular characterization of pyrethroid resistance in the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae
Nena Pavlidi
Anastasia Kampouraki
Vasilis Tseliou
Nicky Wybouw
Wannes Dermauw
Emmanouil Roditakis
Ralf Nauen
Thomas Van Leeuwen
John Vontas
A1
Journal Article
in
PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
2018
Transcriptomic plasticity in the arthropod generalist Tetranychus urticae upon long-term acclimation to different host plants
Simon Snoeck
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Wannes Dermauw
A1
Journal Article
in
G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
2018
2017
Tetranychus urticae mites do not mount an induced immune response against bacteria
Gonçalo Santos-Matos
Nicky Wybouw
Nelson E Martins
Flore Zélé
Maria Riga
Alexandre B Leitão
John Vontas
Miodrag Grbić
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Sara Magalhães
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2017
2016
Life-history evolution in response to changes in metapopulation structure in an arthropod herbivore
Annelies De Roissart
Nicky Wybouw
David Renault
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
2016
The salivary protein repertoire of the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae: a quest for effectors
Wim Jonckheere
Wannes Dermauw
Vladimir Zhurov
Nicky Wybouw
Jan Van den Bulcke
Carlos A Villarroel
Robert Greenhalgh
Mike Grbić
Rob C Schuurink
Luc Tirry
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS
2016
2015
Empirically simulated spatial sorting points at fast epigenetic changes in dispersal behaviour
Katrien Van Petegem
Julien Pétillon
David Renault
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Robby Stoks
Dries Bonte
A1
Journal Article
in
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
2015
The role of horizontally transferred genes in the xenobiotic adaptations of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Nicky Wybouw
Peter H van Tienderen
Luc Tirry
Thomas Van Leeuwen
Dissertation
2015
Tomato whole genome transcriptional response to Tetranychus urticae identifies divergence of spider mite-induced responses between tomato and Arabidopsis
Catherine Martel
Vladimir Zhurov
Marie Navarro
Manuel Martinez
Marc Cazaux
Philippe Auger
Alain Migeon
M Estrella Santamaria
Nicky Wybouw
Isabel Diaz
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
2015
2014
A gene horizontally transferred from bacteria protects arthropods from host plant cyanide poisoning
Nicky Wybouw
Wannes Dermauw
Luc Tirry
Christian Stevens
Miodrag Grbić
René Feyereisen
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
eLIFE
2014
Bacterial origin of a diverse family of UDP-glycosyltransferase genes in the Tetranychus urticae genome
Seung-Joon Ahn
Wannes Dermauw
Nicky Wybouw
David Heckel
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2014
Fitness maximization by dispersal : evidence from an invasion experiment
Dries Bonte
Annelies De Roissart
Nicky Wybouw
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY
2014
Reciprocal responses in the interaction between Arabidopsis and the cell-content feeding chelicerate herbivore spider mite
Vladimir Zhurov
Marie Navarro
Kristie A Bruinsma
Vicent Arbona
M Estrella Santamaria
Marc Cazaux
Nicky Wybouw
Edward J Osborne
Cherise Ens
Cristina Rioja
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
2014
2013
A link between host plant adaptation and pesticide resistance in the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Wannes Dermauw
Nicky Wybouw
Stephane Rombauts
Björn Menten
John Vontas
Miodrag Grbić
Richard M Clark
René Feyereisen
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2013
Genome wide gene-expression analysis of facultative reproductive diapause in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae
Astrid Bryon
Nicky Wybouw
Wannes Dermauw
Luc Tirry
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
BMC GENOMICS
2013
2012
A horizontally transferred cyanase gene in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae is involved in cyanate metabolism and is differentially expressed upon host plant change
Nicky Wybouw
V Balabanidou
DJ Ballhorn
Wannes Dermauw
Mike Grbić
John Vontas
Thomas Van Leeuwen
A1
Journal Article
in
INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2012