RES Journal Awards

RES JOURNAL AWARDS
Award Criteria	The best paper published in each Society Journal over a two year period. Each of the Society Journals participate biennially.
Prize	£600 and Certificate for each participating Journal.
Eligibility	All papers published in each RES Journal.
Cycle	Biennially, for preceding two years ie: 2012 will be based on 2010/2011 published papers.
Adjudication	Editor/s and Editorial Board of each participating Journal.
Entry	Publication automatically means entry.

RES JOURNAL AWARDS SCHEME
2012 WINNERS
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY	MAMORU MATSUKI, NOD KAY, JOSÉ SERIN AND JOHN K. SCOTT *Variation in the ability of larvae of phytophagous insects to develop on evolutionarily unfamiliar plants: a study with gypsy moth Lymantria dispar* and Eucalyptus.** Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2011), 13, 1-13.
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY	DANIEL J. BALLHORN, IMKE SCHMITT, JONATHON D. FANKHAUSER, FUMIAKI KATAGIRI and HARDY PFANZ. CO2-mediated changes of plant traits and their effects on herbivores are determined by leaf age. Ecological Entomology (2011), 36, 1-13.
INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY	DENIS J. RODGERS and ROGER L. KITCHING. Rainforest Collembola (Hexapoda: Collembola) and the insularity of epiphyte microhabitats. Insect Conservation and Diversity (2011), 4, 99-106.
INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY	Y. PAUCHET, P. WILKINSON, H. VOGEL, D.R. NELSON, S.E. REYNOLDS, D.G. HECKEL and R.H. FFRENCH-CONSTANT *Pyrosequencing the Manduca sexta* larval midgut transcriptome: messages for digestion, detoxification and defence.** Insect Molecular Biology (2010), 19(1), 61-75.
2011 WINNERS
MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY	M.H. REISKIND and L.P. LOUNIBOS *Effects of intraspecific larval competition on adult longevity in the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti* and Aedes albopictus** Medical and Veterinary Entomology (2009), 23, 62-68.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY	CHARLES W. FOX and JORDI MOYA-LARANO Diet affects female mating behaviour in a seed-feeding beetle" Physiological Entomology (2009), 34, 370-378.
SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY	SHAUN L. WINTERTON, NATE B. HARDY and BRIAN M. WIEGMANN. "On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data" Systematic Entomology (2010), 35, 349-378.
2010 WINNERS
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY	CELIA K. BOONE, DIANE L. SIX and KENNETH F.RAFFA The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy: competitors add to predator load of a tree-killing bark beetle Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2008), 10, 411-421.
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY	REMY WARE, BENJAMIN YGUEL and MICHAEL MAJERUS Effects of competition, cannibalism and intra-guild predation on larval development of the European coccinellid Adalia bipunctata and the invasive species Harmonia axyridis" Ecological Entomology (2009), 34 (1), 12-19.
INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY	CHRIS D. THOMAS, CAROLINE R. BULMAN and ROBERT J. WILSON. "Where within a geographical range do species survive best? A matter of scale" Insect Conservation and Diversity (2008), 1 (1), 2-8.
INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY	E.MAORI, N.PALDI, S.SHAFIR, H.KALEV, E.TSUR, E.GLICK and I.SELA . "IAPV, a bee-affecting virus associated with Colony collapse Disorder can be silenced by dsRNA ingestion" Insect Molecular Biology (2009), 18 (1), 55-60.
2009 WINNERS
PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY	JACLYN L. BOWEN, SHANNON J. MAHONY, ANDREW C. MASON and JAYNE E. YACK *Vibration-mediated territoriality in the warty birch caterpillar Drepana bilineata*** Physiological Entomology (2008), 33, 238-250.
SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY	CHRISTIANE WEIRAUCH Cladistic analysis of Reduviidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) based on morphological characters Systematic Entomology (2008), 33, 229-274.
MEDICAL & VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY	SJ TORR, A DELLA TORRE, M CALZETTA, et al. *"Towards a fuller understanding of mosquito behaviour: use of electrocuting grids to compare the odour-orientated responses of Anopheles arabiensis* and An. quadriannulatus in the field."** Medical & Veterinary Entomology (2008), 22, 93-108.