Professor James Bell's Outputs (5)

Identifying archived insect bulk samples using DNA metabarcoding: A case study using the long-term Rothamsted Insect Survey (2024)
Journal Article
Petsopoulos, D., Cuff, J. P., Bell, J. R., Kitson, J. J. N., Collins, L., Boonham, N., …Evans, D. M. (2024). Identifying archived insect bulk samples using DNA metabarcoding: A case study using the long-term Rothamsted Insect Survey. Environmental DNA, 6(3), e542. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.542

Insect populations are declining in many parts of the world, but a lack of long-term monitoring data is impeding our ability to understand and mitigate the causes of insect biodiversity loss. Whilst high-throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches, such a... Read More about Identifying archived insect bulk samples using DNA metabarcoding: A case study using the long-term Rothamsted Insect Survey.

How aphids fly: take off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration (2024)
Journal Article
Bell, J., & Shephard, G. (2024). How aphids fly: take off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration. Agricultural and forest entomology,

How aphids fly: take off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration (2024)
Journal Article
Bell, J. R., & Shephard, G. (in press). How aphids fly: take off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration. Agricultural and forest entomology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12623

An introduction to high‐speed photography and its entomological impact is provided, emphasizing the importance of high frame rates and high resolution. The take‐off and free flight of Drepanosiphum platanoidis and Myzus persicae were studied in still... Read More about How aphids fly: take off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration.

Genome assembly and transcriptomic analysis to elucidate the ability of Nasonovia ribisnigri to break host plant resistance (2024)
Journal Article
Garrett, D., Teakle, G., Collier, R., Bell, J. R., Cerezo‐Medina, S., & Morales‐Hojas, R. (in press). Genome assembly and transcriptomic analysis to elucidate the ability of Nasonovia ribisnigri to break host plant resistance. Insect Molecular Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/imb.12894

Aphid genomic resources enable the study of complex life history traits and provide information on vector biology, host adaption and speciation. The currant–lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (Mosley)) is a cosmopolitan pest o... Read More about Genome assembly and transcriptomic analysis to elucidate the ability of Nasonovia ribisnigri to break host plant resistance.

Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks (2024)
Journal Article
Cuff, J. P., Tercel, M. P., Windsor, F. M., Hawthorne, B. S., Hambäck, P. A., Bell, J. R., …Vaughan, I. P. (2024). Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks. Ecological Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13315

Null models provide a valuable baseline against which fundamental ecological hypotheses can be tested and foraging choices that cannot be explained by neutral processes or sampling biases can be highlighted. In this way, null models can advance our u... Read More about Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks.