ArticleBiology letters2025
Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion.
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- A Beginner's How-To Guide to Urban Population Genetics and Genomics.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Bed bug preferences for host odor or aggregation odor are differentially modulated by physiological state in various odorscapes.Pest management science · 2026Article
- Influence of hematocrit variation on Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) development and reproduction.Journal of medical entomology · 2026Article
- Beyond Mosquitoes: A Review of Pediatric Vector-Borne Diseases Excluding Malaria and Arboviral Infections.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion.Biology letters · 2025Article
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There are calls for research into the historical evolutionary relationships between humans and their commensals, as it would greatly inform models that predict the spread of pests and diseases under urban population expansion. The earliest civilizations emerged approximately 10 000 years ago and created conditions ideal for the establishment and spread of commensal urban pests. Commensal relations between humans and pests likely emerged with these early civilizations; however, for most species (e.g. German cockroach and black rat), these relationships have formed relatively recently-within the last 5000 years-raising the question of whether others could have emerged earlier. Following comparative whole genome analysis of bed bugs,
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