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Editorial overview: Integrating Evolutionary, Ecological, and Technological Frontiers in a Rapidly Changing World
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Resistance in pest species is no longer confined to classical genetic mechanisms or agricultural landscapes; instead, it emerges from a multilayered interplay of ecology, behavior, microbiomes, dispersal networks, and human-built environments. Across the manuscripts in this issue, a unifying picture emerges: urbanization and indoor environments act as powerful evolutionary arenas, shaping how pests invade, persist, and adapt to chemical, biological, and environmental pressures. Recent work on indoor pests, including cockroaches, bed bugs, and rodents, reveals how monitoring technologies, behavioral ecology, and microbe-mediated processes influence early detection and resistance management. Studies of long-distance dispersal in mosquitoes demonstrate how human transport networks accelerate the spread of adaptive alleles, including insecticide resistance, while creating spatial mosaics of selection within cities. Research on invasive termites, social wasps, and ants highlights how bridgehead effects, supercoloniality, and urban adaptation interact with microbial symbionts to shape invasion success and resistance trajectories. Meanwhile, emerging insights into microbiome-mediated detoxification show that resistance can arise not only from host genomes but also from microbial metabolism, epigenetic modulation, and environmentally structured microbial communities. Together, these contributions illustrate that pest resistance is an inherently cross-scale phenomenon, from genes and symbionts to cities and global trade routes. By integrating perspectives from molecular biology, invasion ecology, urban entomology, and microbial symbiosis, this issue reframes resistance as a dynamic, multi-dimensional process shaped by human behavior and built environments. Understanding these shared mechanisms is essential for predicting future resistance threats and designing sustainable, evolution-informed management strategies across indoor, urban, and global contexts.
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