Jeremy Mcneil, Phd
Helen I Battle Professor, Behavioural and Chemical
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Jeremy McNeil, PhD Helen I Battle Professor, Behavioural and Chemical Ecology of Insects, of Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
The main thrust of my research programme is to understand the reproductive strategies of insects that migrate in response to either predictable or unpredictable habitat change. The research is multidisciplinary in nature, looking at the behavioural and ecological aspects, as well as using physiological and molecular approaches to understand the mechanisms controlling the reproductive biology in species where mate location and mate choice are modulated by sex pheromones. I am also interested in different aspects of plant-insect and host-parasitoid interactions that involve chemical cues (infochemicals). I have generally chosen to work on pest species, or their natural enemies, as model research systems. This allows us to not only address basic questions in reproductive biology but also to generate data that may be used in the development of more environmentally rational approaches to insect control.
Publications
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Unbehend M, Hänniger S, Vásquez GM, Juárez ML, Reisig D, McNeil JN, Meagher RL, Jenkins DA, Heckel DG, Groot AT. Geographic variation in sexual attraction of Spodoptera frugiperda corn-and rice-strain males to pheromone lures. PLoS One. 2014 Feb 19;9(2):e89255.
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Hurley J, Takemoto H, Takabayashi J, McNeil JN. Host Plant Volatiles and the Sexual Reproduction of the Potato Aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae. Insects. 2014 Oct 24;5(4):783-92.
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Konopka JK, McNeil JN. Mating status regulates postâ€mating refractory period in Striacosta albicosta females. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 2015 Apr 1;155(1):80-5.
