Fernando E. Vega's Publications
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Espinoza, J. C., F. Infante, A. Castillo, J. Perez, G. Nieto, E. Pinson, and F. E. Vega. 2009. The biology of Phymastichus coffea LaSalle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) under field conditions. Biological Control in press. |
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Jaramillo, J., A. Chabi-Olaye, C. Borgemeister, C. Kamonjo, H.-M. Poehling, and F. E. Vega. 2009. Where to sample? Ecological implications of sampling strata in determining abundance of natural enemies of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei. Biological Control in press. |
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Chapman, E. G., J. Jaramillo, F. E. Vega, and J. Harwood. 2009. Biological control of coffee berry borer: the role of DNA-based gut-content analysis in assessment of predation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, February 8-13, 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand in press. |
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Jaramillo, J., and F. E. Vega. 2009. Aphanogmus sp. (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae): a hyperparasitoid of the coffee berry borer parasitoid Prorops nasuta (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in Kenya. Biocontrol Science and Technology in press. |
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Vega, F. E. 2008. Insect pathology and fungal endophytes. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 98:277-279. |
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Vega, F. E., A. Ebert, and R. Ming. 2008. Coffee germplasm resources, genomics, and breeding, In J. Janick (Ed.), Plant Breeding Reviews 30:415-447. |
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Vega, F. E., F. Posada, M. C. Aime, S. W. Peterson, and S. A. Rehner. 2008. Fungal endophytes in green coffee seeds. Mycosystema 27:75-84. |
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Vega, F. E., F. Posada, M. C. Aime, M. Pava-Ripoll, F. Infante, and S. A. Rehner. 2008. Entomopathogenic fungal endophytes. Biological Control 46:72-82. |
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Vega, F. E., R. Ochoa, C. Astorga, and D. E. Walter. 2007. Mites (Arachnida: Acari) inhabiting coffee domatia: a short review and recent findings from Costa Rica. International Journal of Acarology 33:291-295. |
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Benavides, P., J. J. Stuart, F. E. Vega, J. Romero-Severson, A. E. Bustillo, L. Navarro, L. M. Constantino, and F. E. Acevedo. 2007. Genetic variability of Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) in Colombia and development of molecular markers. Proceedings of the 21st International Scientific Colloquium on Coffee, Montpellier, France, September 2006. Association Scientifique Internationale du Café (ASIC), pp. 1301-1315. |
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Posada, F., M. C. Aime, S. W. Peterson, S. A. Rehner, and F. E. Vega. 2007. Inoculation of coffee plants with the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). Mycological Research 111:749-758.
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Vega, F. E., F. Posada, T. Gianfagna, F. Chaves, and S. W. Peterson. 2006. An insect parasitoid carrying an ochratoxin producing fungus. Naturwissenschaften 93:297-299.
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Vega, F. E., F. Posada, S. W. Peterson, T. Gianfagna, and F. Chaves. 2006. Penicillium species endophytic in coffee plants and ochratoxin A production. Mycologia 98:31-42.
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Rehner, S. A., F. Posada, E. Buckley, F. Infante, A. Castillo, and F. E. Vega. 2006. Phylogenetic origins of African and American Beauveria bassiana pathogens of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 93:11-21.
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Posada, F., and F. E. Vega. 2006. Inoculation and colonization of coffee seedlings (Coffea arabica L.) with the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). Mycoscience 47:284–289. |
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Vega, F. E., F. Posada, and F. Infante. 2006. Coffee insects, ecology, and control. In D. Pimentel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Dekker, published online.
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Benavides, P., F. E. Vega, J. Romero-Severson, A. E. Bustillo, and J. Stuart. 2005. Biodiversity and biogeography of an important inbred pest of coffee, the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98:359-366.
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Vega, F. E. 2005. What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. The Quarterly Review of Biology 80:224-225 [Book Review].
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Pérez, J., F. Infante, and F. E. Vega. 2005. Does the coffee berry borer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) have mutualistic fungi? Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98:483-490.
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Infante, F., J. C. Espinoza, A. Castillo, and F. E. Vega. 2005. Historia natural de la avispita Phymastichus coffea. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico. 13 pp. |
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Peterson, S. W., F. E. Vega, F. Posada, and C. Nagai. 2005. Penicillium coffea, a new endophytic species isolated from a coffee plant and its phylogenetic relationship to P. fellutanum, P. thiersii, and P. brocae based on parsimony analysis of multilocus DNA sequences. Mycologia 97:659-666.
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Vega, F. E., M. Pava-Ripoll, F. Posada, and J. S. Buyer. 2005. Endophytic bacteria in Coffea arabica L. Journal of Basic Microbiology 45:371-380.
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Posada, F., and F. E. Vega. 2005. A new method to evaluate the biocontrol potential of single spore isolates of fungal entomopathogens. Journal of Insect Science5:37. Available online: http://www.insectscience.org/5.37/
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Posada, F., and F. E. Vega. 2005. Establishment of the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) as an endophyte in cocoa seedlings (Theobroma cacao). Mycologia 97:1195-1200. |
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Castillo, A., F. Infante, G. López, J. Trujillo, L. R. Kirkendall, and F. E. Vega. 2004. Laboratory parasitism by Phymastichus coffea upon non-target bark beetles associated with coffee plantations. The Florida Entomologist 87:274-277.
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Vega, F. E. 2004. Coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 575-576, In Encyclopedia of Entomology, J. L. Capinera (Ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. Second edition published by Springer in 2008.
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Ortiz, A., A. Ortiz, F. E. Vega, and F. Posada. 2004. Volatile composition of coffee berries at different stages of ripeness, and their possible attraction to the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 52:5914-5918.
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Posada, F., F. E. Vega, S. A. Rehner, M. Blackwell, D. Weber, S.-O. Suh, and R. A. Humber. 2004. Syspastospora parasitica, a mycoparasite of the fungus Beauveria bassiana attacking the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata: a tritrophic association. Journal of Insect Science, 4:24, Available online: http://www.insectscience.org/4.24
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Poinar, Jr., G. O., F. E. Vega, A. Castillo, I. Chavez, and F. Infante. 2004. Metaparasitylenchus hypothenemi sp. n. (Allantonematidae: Nematoda), a parasite of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Journal of Parasitology 90:1106-1110.
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Peterson, S. W., J. Pérez, F. E. Vega, and F. Infante. 2003. Penicillium brocae, a new species associated with the coffee berry borer in Chiapas, Mexico. Mycologia 95:141-147.
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Dowd, P. F., and F. E. Vega. 2003. Autodissemination of Beauveria bassiana by sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) to overwintering sites. Biocontrol Science and Technology 15:69-79.
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Vega, F. E., M. A. Jackson, G. Mercadier, and T. Poprawski. 2003. The impact of nutrition on spore yields for various fungal entomopathogens in liquid culture. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 19:363-368.
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Vega, F. E., M. B. Blackburn, C. P. Kurtzman, and P. F. Dowd. 2003. Identification of a coffee berry borer associated yeast: does it break down caffeine? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 107:19-24.
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Pérez, J., F. Infante, F. E. Vega, F. Holguín, J. Macías, J. Valle, G. Nieto, S. W. Peterson, C. P. Kurtzman, and K. O’Donnell. 2003. Mycobiota associated with the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) in Mexico. Mycological Research 107:879-887.
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Vega, F. E., E. Rosenquist, and W. Collins. 2003. Global project needed to tackle coffee crisis. Nature 425:343.
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Vega, F. E., P. Benavides, J. Stuart, and S. L. O’Neill. 2002. Wolbachia infection in the coffee berry borer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95:374-378.
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Mercadier, G., M.-G. Saethre, and F. E. Vega. 2002. First report of the fungal entomopathogen Paecilomyces in Norway. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 49:71-73.
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Castillo, A., F. Infante, J. Barrera, L. Carta, and F. E. Vega. 2002. First field report of a nematode (Tylenchida: Sphaerularioidea) attacking the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in the Americas. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 79:199-202.
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Vega, F. E., R. A. Franqui, and P. Benavides. 2002. The presence of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, in Puerto Rico: fact or fiction? Journal of Insect Science, 2.13. Available online: http://www.insectscience.org/2.13
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Narang, N., F. Hérard, E. M. Dougherty, K. Chen, and F. E. Vega. 2001. A gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar, Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) multinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus from France: comparison with North American and Korean strains. European Journal of Entomology 98:189-194.
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Fargues J., N. Smits, C. Vidal, A. Vey, F. E. Vega, G. Mercadier, and P. C. Quimby, Jr. 2001. Effect of liquid culture media on morphology, growth, propagule production, and pathogenic activity of the Hyphomycete, Metarhizium flavoviride. Mycopathologia 154:127-138.
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Vega, F. E., G. Mercadier, and P. F. Dowd. 2000. Fungi associated with the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei Ferrari (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Proceedings of the 18th International Scientific Colloquium on Coffee, Helsinki, Finland, August 1999. Association Scientifique Internationale du Café (ASIC), pp. 229-238.
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Vega, F. E., L. A. Lacey, A. P. Reid, F. Hérard, D. Pilarska, E. Danova, R. Tomov,and H. K. Kaya. 2000. Infectivity of a Bulgarian and an American strain of Steinernema carpocapsae (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) against codling moth. BioControl 45:337-343.
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Pilarska, D., M. McManus, A. Hajek, F. Hérard, F. E. Vega, D. Pilarska, and G. Markova. 2000. Introduction of the entomopathogenic fungus Entomophaga maimaiga to a Lymantria dispar population in Bulgaria. Anzeiger für Shädlingskunde (Journal of Pest Science) 73:125-126.
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Vega, F. E., G. Mercadier, A. Damon, and A. Kirk. 1999. Natural enemies of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Togo and Ivory Coast, and additional entomofauna associated with coffee beans. African Entomology 7:243-248.
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Vega, F. E., M. A. Jackson, and M. R. McGuire. 1999. Germination of conidia and blastospores of the fungal entomopathogen Paecilomyces fumosoroseus on the cuticle of Bemisia argentifolii and on two types of agar. Mycopathologia 147:33-35.
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Vega, F. E., and M. Blackwell (Editors). 2005. Insect -Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press, New York, 333 pp. Japanese translation published by Kyoritsu Shuppan in June of 2007, 400 pp.
 
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Vega, F. E., P. F. Dowd, L. A. Lacey, J. K. Pell, D. Michael Jackson, and M. Klein. 2000. Dissemination of beneficial microbial agents by insects, pp. 153-176, In L. A. Lacey and H. Kaya (Eds.), Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
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Quimby, Jr., P. C., G. Mercadier, W. Meikle, F. E. Vega, J. Fargues, and N. Zidack. 2001. Enhancing biological control through superior formulations: a worthy goal but still a work in progress, pp. 86-95, In M. Vurro, J. Gressel, T. Butt, G. Harman, D. Nuss, D. Sands, and R. St. Leger (Eds.), Enhancing Biocontrol Agents and Handling Risks - NATO Science Series Vol. 339: Life and Behavioural Sciences, IOS Press, The Netherlands.
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Blackwell, M., and F. E. Vega. 2005. Seven wonders of the insect-fungus world, pp. xiii-xvii, In F. E. Vega and M. Blackwell (Eds.), Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, New York.
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Vega, F. E., and P. F. Dowd. 2005. The role of yeasts as insect endosymbionts, pp. 211-243, In F. E. Vega and M. Blackwell (Eds.), Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, New York.
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Vega, F. E., and M. Blackwell. 2005. Symbioses, biocomplexity, and metagenomes, pp. 293-295, In F. E. Vega and M. Blackwell (Eds.), Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, New York.
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Vega, F. E. 2007. Naming names: The etymology of fungal entomopathogens, pp. 1-11, In S. Ekesi and N. Maniania (Eds.), Use of Entomopathogenic Fungi in Biological Pest Management,Research SignPost, India.
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Vega, F. E., P. F. Dowd, L. A. Lacey, J. K. Pell, D. Michael Jackson, and M. Klein. 2007. Dissemination of beneficial microbial agents by insects, pp. 127-146, In L. A. Lacey and H. Kaya (Eds.), Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology, Second Edition. Application and Evaluation of Pathogens for Control of Insects and other Invertebrate Pests, Springer, The Netherlands. |
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Patents |
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Dowd, P. F., Vega, F. E. 1995. Autoinoculating device for contaminating insects with active agents. U. S. Patent No. 5,452,540.
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Popular articles |
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Vega, F. E., and E. Rosenquist. 2001. USDA’s Coffee Research Program. The Coffee Reporter 6:6.
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