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Linda M. Field is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific focus in subfields such as Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to insect and pesticide research, insect resistance and genetics, and insect-plant interactions and control. Further areas of investigation include insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insect pest control strategies, entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control, and fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
  • BMC Genomics
  • Pest Management Science
  • Research Square
  • Molecular Ecology

Important recent papers authored or co-authored by Linda M. Field are:

  • Evolutionary trade-offs of insecticide resistance - The fitness costs associated with target-site mutations in the nAChR of Drosophila melanogaster, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Investigating the status of pyrethroid resistance in UK populations of the cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala), 2020, Crop Protection
  • Assessing the acute toxicity of insecticides to the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris audax), 2020, Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
  • Identifying aphid resistance in the ancestral wheat Triticum monococcum under field conditions, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • A scaffold-level genome assembly of a minute pirate bug, Orius laevigatus (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae), and a comparative analysis of insecticide resistance-related gene families with hemipteran crop pests, 2022, BMC Genomics

Linda M. Field has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Martin S. Williamson
  • Ralf Nauen
  • T. G. E. Davies
  • Chris Rawlings
  • Rob King

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • The evolution of insecticide resistance in the peach–potato aphid, Myzus persicae

    Chris Bass;Alin M. Puinean;Christoph T. Zimmer;Ian Denholm

  • Amplification of a cytochrome P450 gene is associated with resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in the aphid Myzus persicae.

    Alin M. Puinean;Stephen P. Foster;Linda Oliphant;Ian Denholm

  • An Overview of Insecticide Resistance

    Janet Hemingway;Linda Field;John Vontas

  • Opportunities and hurdles of edible insects for food and feed

    D. Dobermann;D. Dobermann;J. A. Swift;L. M. Field

  • Gene amplification and insecticide resistance

    Chris Bass;Linda M Field

  • Resistance to diamide insecticides in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) is associated with a mutation in the membrane-spanning domain of the ryanodine receptor.

    Bartek Troczka;Christoph T. Zimmer;Jan Elias;Corinna Schorn

  • Mutation of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β subunit is associated with resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in the aphid Myzus persicae

    Chris Bass;Alin M Puinean;Melanie Andrews;Penny Cutler

  • Detection of knockdown resistance (kdr) mutations in Anopheles gambiae: a comparison of two new high-throughput assays with existing methods

    Chris Bass;Dimitra Nikou;Martin J Donnelly;Martin S Williamson

  • Investigating the molecular mechanisms of organophosphate and pyrethroid resistance in the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda.

    Renato A. Carvalho;Celso Omoto;Linda M. Field;Martin S. Williamson

  • Modelling insecticide-binding sites in the voltage-gated sodium channel.

    Andrias O. O'Reilly;Bhupinder P. S. Khambay;Martin S. Williamson;Linda M. Field

  • Molecular evidence that insecticide resistance in peach-potato aphids (Myzus persicae Sulz.) results from amplification of an esterase gene.

    L M Field;A L Devonshire;B G Forde

  • Characterisation of Bombyx Mori Odorant-Binding Proteins Reveals that a General Odorant-Binding Protein Discriminates between Sex Pheromone Components.

    Jing-Jiang Zhou;Giles Robertson;Xiaoli He;Samuel Dufour

  • Gene amplification and insecticide resistance.

    A L Devonshire;L M Field

  • A sodium channel point mutation is associated with resistance to DDT and pyrethroid insecticides in the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae).

    D. Martinez-Torres;S. P. Foster;L. M. Field;A. L. Devonshire

  • "Plus-C" odorant-binding protein genes in two Drosophila species and the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

    Jing-Jiang Zhou;Wensheng Huang;Guo-An Zhang;John A Pickett

  • Unravelling the Molecular Determinants of Bee Sensitivity to Neonicotinoid Insecticides

    Cristina Manjon;Bartlomiej J. Troczka;Marion Zaworra;Marion Zaworra;Katherine Beadle

  • Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans ): Vector of African trypanosomiasis

    Junichi Watanabe;Masahira Hattori;Matthew Berriman;Michael J. Lehane

  • Gene amplification and microsatellite polymorphism underlie a recent insect host shift.

    Chris Bass;Christoph T. Zimmer;Christoph T. Zimmer;Jacob M. Riveron;Craig S. Wilding

  • Identification of odorant-binding proteins of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti: genome annotation and comparative analyses.

    J.-J. Zhou;X.-L. He;J. A. Pickett;L. M. Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin S. Williamson
Martin S. Williamson Rothamsted Research
Chris Bass
Chris Bass University of Exeter
Alan L. Devonshire
Alan L. Devonshire The Hertz Corporation
Jing-Jiang Zhou
Jing-Jiang Zhou Gansu Agricultural University
John A. Pickett
John A. Pickett Cardiff University
Bonnie A. Wallace
Bonnie A. Wallace Birkbeck, University of London
Ian Denholm
Ian Denholm University of Hertfordshire
Ralf Nauen
Ralf Nauen Bayer (Germany)
John Vontas
John Vontas Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine

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