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  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jocelyn G. Millar is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad disciplines, Millar's work focuses significantly on Insect Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's main areas of study include Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Insect and Pesticide Research, Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Millar has authored numerous publications in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Environmental Entomology
  • Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Insects
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among their recent papers are:

  • Cuticular Hydrocarbons as Contact Sex Pheromone in the Parasitoid Wasp Urolepis rufipes, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Cuticular pheromones stimulate hygienic behavior in the honey bee (Apis mellifera), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Worldwide tests of generic attractants, a promising tool for early detection of non-native cerambycid species, 2023, NeoBiota
  • Complex Blends of Synthetic Pheromones are Effective Multi-Species Attractants for Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), 2020, Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Development of a Mating Disruption Program for a Mealybug, Planococcus ficus, in Vineyards, 2020, Insects

Millar has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Lawrence M. Hanks, Yunfan Zou, Sean Halloran, Weliton D. Silva, and Livy Williams.

Among awards received, Millar is noted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recognized in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Insect Hydrocarbons : Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemical Ecology

    Gary J Blomquist;Anne Genevieve Bagneres

  • Specialized cells tag sexual and species identity in Drosophila melanogaster

    Jean-Christophe Billeter;Jade Atallah;Joshua J Krupp;Jocelyn G Millar

  • Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing.

    Annette Van Oystaeyen;Ricardo Caliari Oliveira;Luke Holman;Jelle S. van Zweden

  • Advances in insect chemical ecology

    Ring T. Cardé;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • A single gene affects both ecological divergence and mate choice in Drosophila

    Henry Chung;David W. Loehlin;Héloïse D. Dufour;Kathy Vaccarro

  • Identification of oviposition attractants for Culex quinquefasciatus from fermented Bermuda grass infusions.

    Millar Jg;Chaney Jd;Mulla Ms

  • Identification of volatile synomones, induced by Nezara viridula feeding and oviposition on bean spp., that attract the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis

    Stefano Colazza;J Steven McElfresh;Jocelyn G Millar

  • Polyene hydrocarbons and epoxides: a second major class of lepidopteran sex attractant pheromones.

    Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Sex and Aggregation-Sex Pheromones of Cerambycid Beetles: Basic Science and Practical Applications.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Water relations of host trees and resistance to the phloem-boring beetle Phoracantha semipunctata F. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Timothy D. Paine;Jocelyn G. Millar;Christopher D. Campbell

  • Role of contact pheromones in mate recognition in Xylotrechus colonus.

    Matthew D. Ginzel;Gary J. Blomquist;Jocelyn G. Millar;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Cerambycid Beetle Neoclytus acuminatus acuminatus

    Emerson S. Lacey;Matthew D. Ginzel;Jocelyn G. Millar;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Pheromone mating disruption offers selective management options for key pests

    S Welter;C Pickel;J Millar;F Cave

  • Development and optimization of methods for using sex pheromone for monitoring the mealybug Planococcus ficus (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) in California vineyards.

    Jocelyn G. Millar;Kent M. Daane;J. Steven Mcelfresh;Jardel A. Moreira;Jardel A. Moreira

  • Field bioassays of cerambycid pheromones reveal widespread parsimony of pheromone structures, enhancement by host plant volatiles, and antagonism by components from heterospecifics

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Pheromones of true bugs

    Jocelyn G. Millar

  • New controls investigated for vine mealybug

    K Daane;W Bentley;Walton;R Malakar-Kuenen

  • Treating Panel Traps with a Fluoropolymer Enhances their Efficiency in Capturing Cerambycid Beetles

    Elizabeth E. Graham;Robert F. Mitchell;Peter F. Reagel;James D. Barbour

  • Pheromone-based mating disruption of Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in California vineyards.

    Vaughn M. Walton;Vaughn M. Walton;Kent M. Daane;Walter J. Bentley;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Host species preference and larval performance in the wood-boring beetlePhoracantha semipunctata F.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Timothy D. Paine;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • A Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a Major Vector of Pine Wood Nematode

    Stephen A. Teale;Jacob D. Wickham;Feiping Zhang;Jun Su

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence M. Hanks
Lawrence M. Hanks University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefano Colazza
Stefano Colazza University of Palermo
Kent M. Daane
Kent M. Daane University of California, Berkeley
Ring T. Cardé
Ring T. Cardé University of California, Riverside
Kenneth F. Haynes
Kenneth F. Haynes University of Kentucky
John T. Trumble
John T. Trumble University of California, Riverside
Thomas C. Baker
Thomas C. Baker Pennsylvania State University
Christer Löfstedt
Christer Löfstedt Lund University
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford

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