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A. Costamagna

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ProfessorDepartment of EntomologyUniversity of Manitoba

A. Costamagna

Professor

Department of Entomology

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 11 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Arthropod-mediated ecosystem services Effects of landscape structure on agricultural pests and beneficial insects Plant resistance to insect pests Bottom-up and top-down controls of herbivores Trophic cascades in agroecosystems Intraguild predation Biological control and integrated pest management Food webs

Latest papers

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat
Cell Reports · 2026
Semi-Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural Landscapes.
Ecology letters · 2026
Wheat fertilization affects oviposition preference of wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).
Pest management science · 2026 · senior author

All 80 publications

80 publications.

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat

Gwyneth Halstead-Nussloch, Moeko Okada, Haberer Georg, Thomas M. Lux, A.S.M. Faridul Islam, Masaomi Hatakeyama, Roman V. Briskine, Benjamen White, Anthony J W Hall, Curtis Pozniak, Sean Walkowiak, Valentyna Klymiuk, Brook Byrns, Kirby Nilsen, Jennifer Ens, Krystalee Wiebe, Amidou N’ Diaye, Pierre J. Hucl, Curtis Pozniak, Bin Xiao Fu, Liangliang Gao, Emily Delorean, Dal‐Hoe Koo, Allen K. Fritz, Jesse A. Poland, Cécile Monat, Axel Himmelbach, Anne Fiebig, Sudharsan Padmarasu, Uwe Scholz, et al. (115 authors)

Cell Reports20262 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116785 PMID: 41592571

Semi-Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural Landscapes.

Perrot T, Beaumelle L, Thomine E, Tricault Y, Desneux N, Albrecht M, Batáry P, Bianchi F, Birkhofer K, Bosem Baillod A, Chaplin-Kramer R, Cortesero AM, Costamagna AC, Diekötter T, Ekroos J, Entling MH, Gagic V, Groves R, Huseth A, Jaworski C, Kaiser M, Karp DS, Krauss J, Lavandero B, Le Ralec A, Lu Y, Martin EA, Mitchell M, Molina GAR, Palmu E, Perovic DJ, Ragsdale D, Redlich S, Samaranayake I, Saulais J, Schellhorn NA, Steffan-Dewenter I, Sutter L, Tscharntke T, Tschumi M, Rusch A

Ecology letters2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1111/ele.70440 PMID: 42604565

Wheat fertilization affects oviposition preference of wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).

Weeraddana CS, Wijesundara R, Schmidt SA, de la Mata AP, McCartney C, Harynuk JJ, Costamagna AC

Pest management science2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/ps.70756 PMID: 41877552

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome

Benjamen White, Thomas M. Lux, Rachel L. Rusholme-Pilcher, Angéla Juhász, Gemy Kaithakottil, Susan Hanley Duncan, James Simmonds, Hannah Rees, Jonathan Wright, Joshua Colmer, Ben J. Ward, Ryan Joynson, Benedict Coombes, Naomi Irish, Suzanne M. Henderson, Tom Barker, Helen Chapman, Leah Catchpole, Karim Gharbi, Utpal Bose, Moeko Okada, Hirokazu Handa, Shuhei Nasuda, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Heidrun Gundlach, Daniel Lang, Guy Naamati, Erik J. Legg, Arvind Kumar Bharti, Michelle Lisa Colgrave, et al. (132 authors)

Nature Communications202514 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64046-1 PMID: 41053037

Insect biological control: a global perspective

Lessando Moreira Gontijo, Jorge Braz Torres, Paul K. Abram, Armando Alfaro-Tapia, Hugo C. Arredondo‐Bernal, Antonio Biondi, Raymond A. Cloyd, Alejandro C. Costamagna, Nicolas Desneux, Marie D’Ottavio, Michael J. Furlong, Nancy M. Greco, Roselyne M. Labbe, Martin Hill, Blas I. Lavandero, Tianhao Li, José Refugio Lomelí-Flores, Éric Lucas, G.J. Messelink, Margarita Rocca, Marcela Rodriguez-Garcia, José Ron Parra, Ainara Peñalver‐Cruz, Bonoukpoè Mawuko Sokame, Sean Thackeray, Alberto Urbaneja, Germán Vargas, Myron Philip Zalucki, Lian‐Sheng Zang

Entomologia Generalis202511 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1127/entomologia/3237

Floral strips increase the abundance and spillover of beneficial insects in rotational crop fields

Michael F. Killewald, Alejandro C. Costamagna, Yvonne E. Lawley, Robert H. Gulden, Jason Gibbs

Agricultural and Forest Entomology20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/afe.12694

Contribution of awns and hairy glumes in spring wheat to resistance against wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana

Bridget White, Curt A. McCartney, Robert J. Lamb, Chaminda De Silva Weeraddana, Tyler J. Wist, Santosh Kumar, Robert Joseph Graf, Pierre Hucl, Alejandro C. Costamagna

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/eea.13581

Combined effects of canola plant density and insecticide management strategies on flea beetle abundance, canola defoliation, and yield across the Canadian prairies

Shayla Woodland, Héctor A. Cárcamo, Tyler J. Wist, Jennifer K. Otani, John Gavloski, Robert J. Duncan, Tharshinidevy Nagalingam, Alejandro C. Costamagna

Pest Management Science20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/ps.70320 PMID: 41168101

Biology, Ecology, and Management of Flea Beetles in Brassica Crops

Zhenyu Li, Alejandro C. Costamagna, Franziska Beran, Minsheng You

Annual Review of Entomology202440 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-033023-015753 PMID: 38270984

Flea beetle (Phyllotreta spp.) management in spring‐planted canola (Brassica napus L.) on the northern Great Plains of North America

Priyanka Mittapelly, Kristen Guelly, Altaf Hussain, Héctor A. Cárcamo, Juliana J. Soroka, Meghan A. Vankosky, Dwayne D. Hegedus, James A. Tansey, Alejandro C. Costamagna, John Gavloski, Janet J. Knodel, Boyd A. Mori

GCB Bioenergy202410 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.13178

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A. Costamagna

Research

Latest papers

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat

Semi-Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural Landscapes.

Wheat fertilization affects oviposition preference of wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome

Insect biological control: a global perspective

Floral strips increase the abundance and spillover of beneficial insects in rotational crop fields

Contribution of awns and hairy glumes in spring wheat to resistance against wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana

Combined effects of canola plant density and insecticide management strategies on flea beetle abundance, canola defoliation, and yield across the Canadian prairies

Biology, Ecology, and Management of Flea Beetles in Brassica Crops

Flea beetle (Phyllotreta spp.) management in spring‐planted canola (Brassica napus L.) on the northern Great Plains of North America

Frequent collaborators

Alejandro Costamagna

Curt McCartney

Carl Gutwin

Curtis Pozniak

Robert Gulden

James Harynuk

Matthew Mitchell

Eric Lucas

Valentyna Klymiuk

Pierre Fobert

Nicoletta Faraone

Nicola Koper

Neil Hillier

Boyd Mori

A. Costamagna

Research

Latest papers

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat

Semi-Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural Landscapes.

Wheat fertilization affects oviposition preference of wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (G&#xe9;hin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).

De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome

Insect biological control: a global perspective

Floral strips increase the abundance and spillover of beneficial insects in rotational crop fields

Contribution of awns and hairy glumes in spring wheat to resistance against wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana

Combined effects of canola plant density and insecticide management strategies on flea beetle abundance, canola defoliation, and yield across the Canadian prairies

Biology, Ecology, and Management of Flea Beetles in Brassica Crops

Flea beetle (Phyllotreta spp.) management in spring‐planted canola (Brassica napus L.) on the northern Great Plains of North America

Frequent collaborators

Alejandro Costamagna

Curt McCartney

Carl Gutwin

Curtis Pozniak

Robert Gulden

James Harynuk

Matthew Mitchell

Eric Lucas

Valentyna Klymiuk

Pierre Fobert

Nicoletta Faraone

Nicola Koper

Neil Hillier

Boyd Mori

Wheat fertilization affects oviposition preference of wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).