We use and ecological and evolutionary
perspective to elucidate how the
interplay between constraints and
selection affects a broad range
of characters, including resistance
to transgenic crops and insecticides,
host-selection behaviors and diapause.
We also focus on the development
of spatially-explicit methods for
the control of insect pests and
assessment of environmental impacts
of transgenic crops. Our research
projects are quite diversified.
Examples include assessments of
the environmental and population
dynamics impacts of transgenic crops,
development of GIS-based approach
for the control of Lygus
bugs, studies of fitness costs associated
with the evolution of resistance
to Bt crops and studies of the evolution
of resistance to insecticides in
haplodiploid insect pests.
Crowder DW, Carrière Y, Tabashnik BE, Ellsworth
PC, Dennehy TJ. 2006. Modeling evolution of resistance to pyriproxyfen
by the sweetpotato whitefly (Homoptera : Aleyrodidae). Journal
of Economic Entomology 99(4): 1396-1406.
Gassmann AJ, Stock SP, Carrière Y, Tabashnik
BE. 2006. Effect of entomopathogenic nematodes on the fitness cost
of resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac in pink bollworm (Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae).
Journal of Economic Entomology 99(3): 920-926.
Carrière Y., C. Ellers Kirk, R.W. Biggs, M. E. Nyboer, G. C. Unnithan, T. J. Dennehy, and B. E. Tabashnik. 2006. Cadherin-based resistance to Bt cotton in hybrid strains of pink bollworm: Fitness costs and incomplete resistance. Journal of Economic Entomology. 99: 1925-1935.
Cattaneo M. G., C. Yafuso, C. Schmidt, C. Huang, M. Rahman, C. Olson, C. Ellers-Kirk, B. J. Orr, S. E. Marsh, L. Antilla, P. Dutilleul, and Y. Carrière. 2006. Farm-scale evaluation of transgenic cotton impacts on biodiversity, pesticide use, and yield. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 103: 7571-7576.
Carrière Y.,
P. Ellsworth, P. Dutilleul, C.
Ellers-Kirk, V. Barkley, and L.
Antilla. 2006. A GIS-based approach
for area-wide pest management:
The scales of Lygus hesperus
movements to cotton from alfalfa,
weeds and cotton. Entomologia
Experimentalis et Applicata,
118: 203-210.
Sisterson MS, Carrière Y, Dennehy TJ, Tabashnik BE. 2005. Evolution of resistance to transgenic crops: Interactions between insect movement and field distribution. Journal of Economic Entomology 98(6): 1751-1762.
Tabashnik, B.E., T. J. Dennehy,
and Y. Carrière.
2005. Delayed resistance to transgenic
cotton in pink bollworm. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences
USA. 43: 15389-15393.
Higginson, D. M., S. Morin, M.
Nyboer, R. Biggs, B. E. Tabashnik,
and Y. Carrière.
2005. Evolutionary trade-offs
of insect resistance to Bt
crops: fitness costs affecting
paternity. Evolution.
59: 915-920.
Carrière, Y.,
C. Ellers-Kirk, K. Kumar, S. Heuberger,
M. Whitlow, L. Antilla, T. J.
Dennehy, and B. E. Tabashnik.
2005. Long-term evaluation of
compliance with refuge requirements
for Bt cotton. Pest
Management Science. 61: 327-330.
Carrière Y.,
P. Dutilleul, C. Ellers-Kirk,
B. Pedersen, S. Haller, L. Antilla,
T. J. Dennehy, and B. E. Tabashnik.
2004. Sources, sinks, and zone
of influence of refuges for managing
insect resistance to Bt
crops. Ecological Applications.
14: 1615–1623
Fitt, G., Andow, D.A., Carrière,
Y., Moar, W.A., Schuler,
T., Omoto, C., Kanya, J., Okech,
M., Arama, P., Maniania, N.K.
2004. Resistance risks and management
associated with Bt maize
in Kenya. Chapter 7. pp. 209-250.
In: A. Hilbeck and D. Andow (Eds.).
Environmental Risk Assessment
of Genetically Modified Organisms,
Volume 1: A Case Study of Bt Maize
in Kenya. CABI International,
Wallingford,UK.
Carrière Y.,
M. S. Sisterson, B. E. Tabashnik.
2004. Resistance Management for
Sustainable Use of Bacillus
thuringiensis Crops. pp.
65-95. In: A.R. Horowitz, I. Ishaaya
(Eds.), Insect Pest Management:
Field and Protected Crops, Springer,
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
Singer, M. S., Y. Carrière,
C. Theuling, and T. Hartman. 2004.
Disentangling food quality from
enemy-free space in host use by
phytophagous insects: insights
from a generalist caterpillar.
The American Naturalist.
164: 423-429
Carrière, Y.
2003. Haplodiploidy, sex and the
evolution of pesticide resistance.
Journal of Economic Entomology.
96: 1626-1640.
Carrière, Y.,
C. Ellers-Kirk, M. Sisterson,
L. Antilla, M. Whitlow, T. J.
Dennehy and B. E. Tabashnik. 2003.
Long-term regional suppression
of pink bollworm by Bacillus
thuringiensis cotton. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences
USA. 100: 1519-1523.
Carrière, Y.
and B. E. Tabashnik. 2001. Reversing
insect adaptation to transgenic
insecticidal plants. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London.
B. 268: 1475-1480.
Carrière, Y.,
T. J. Dennehy, B. Petersen, S.
Haller, C. Ellers-Kirk, L. Antilla,
Y-B. Liu, E. Willot, and B. E.
Tabashnik. 2001. Large-scale management
of insect resistance to transgenic
cotton in Arizona: can transgenic
insecticidal crops be sustained?
Journal of Economic Entomology.
94: 315-325.
