Mingxue Xie

Rectal bacteria produce sex pheromones in the male oriental fruit fly

Daifeng Cheng, Yongyue Lu, Lu Ren, 2020, Current Biology.

Countering beta-cypermethrin: partitioning roles of the insect gut and its bacteria

Fuai Wang, Tianzhong Jing, Fenghui Qi, 2023, Journal of Pest Science.

Egg-Surface Bacteria Are Indirectly Associated with Oviposition Aversion in Bactrocera dorsalis

B. Hassan, Daifeng Cheng, Yongyue Lu, 2020, Current Biology.

Egg-surface bacteria deter oviposition by the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis

B. Hassan, Yang Gao, Daifeng Cheng, 2020, bioRxiv.

Differences in rectal amino acid levels determine bacteria-originated sex pheromone specificity in two closely related flies

J. Gershenzon, G. Smagghe, Daifeng Cheng, 2023, The ISME journal.