Subset partitioning of the ribosomal DNA small subunit and its effects on the phylogeny of the Anopheles punctulatus group.

abstract：:Ticks continue to be a threat to animal and human health, and new and novel control strategies are needed for ticks and tick-borne pathogens. The characterization of the tick-pathogen interface and the tick immune response to microbial infections is fundamental toward the formulation of new control strategies for tick...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Jaworski DC,Zou Z,Bowen CJ,Wasala NB,Madden R,Wang Y,Kocan KM,Jiang H,Dillwith JW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the ant Camponotus festinatus, two different hexamerins accumulate stage-specifically during the late larval period and at various times in adults. These hexamerins serve as storage proteins and play important roles in brood nourishment and colony founding. We report an analysis of the cDNA sequence of C. festinatu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Martínez T,Burmester T,Veenstra JA,Wheeler D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arthropod Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam) mediates pathogen-specific recognition via an extensive protein isoform repertoire produced by alternative splicing. To date, most studies have focused on the subsequent pathogen-specific immune response, and few have investigated the entry into cells of virus...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang F,Li Q,Chen X,Huo Y,Guo H,Song Z,Cui F,Zhang L,Fang R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens mate early in life and store sperm for years. Male bees likely contribute significantly to sperm survival. Proteins were extracted from seminal vesicles and semen of mature drones, separated by electrophoresis, and analysed by peptide mass fingerprinting. Computer searches against ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Collins AM,Caperna TJ,Williams V,Garrett WM,Evans JD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast and reliable methods for assessing the mobility of the transposable element Minos have been developed. These methods are based on the detection of excision and insertion of Minos transposons from and into plasmids which are co-introduced into cells. Excision is detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with app...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Klinakis AG,Loukeris TG,Pavlopoulos A,Savakis C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR primers designed from the alpha-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster have been used to isolate fragments from eight esterase genes in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that three are homologues of the alpha E7, alpha E8 and alpha E9 genes of the alpha-esteras...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Newcomb RD,East PD,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose is a major component of the primary and secondary cell walls in plants. Cellulose is considered to be the most abundant biopolymer on Earth and represents a large potential source of metabolic energy. Yet, cellulose degradation is rare and mostly restricted to cellulolytic microorganisms. Recently, various m...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Busch A,Kunert G,Wielsch N,Pauchet Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HindIII restriction digests of the rDNA repeat unit of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, reveal significant intraspecies sequence polymorphism. This variability is probably caused by structural differences within the nontranscribed spacer regions (NTS) of the ribosomal repeat unit. HindIII rDNA fragment polym...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mukha DV,Sidorenko AP,Lazebnaya IV,Wiegmann BM,Schal C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternally inherited bacterium Wolbachia is well known for spreading in natural populations by manipulating the reproduction of its arthropod hosts, but can also have mutualist effects that increase host fitness. In mosquitoes and Drosophila some Wolbachia strains can lead to an increase in survival of virus-infec...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Cattel J,Martinez J,Jiggins F,Mouton L,Gibert P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-gated chloride channels (LGICs) are important targets for insecticides and parasiticides. Genes encoding subunits of two LGICs, a glutamate-gated chloride channel (MdGluCl-alpha) and a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel (MdRdl), were cloned from house-flies (Musca domestica L.). These genes w...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Eguchi Y,Ihara M,Ochi E,Shibata Y,Matsuda K,Fushiki S,Sugama H,Hamasaki Y,Niwa H,Wada M,Ozoe F,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensely studied white gene is widely used as a genetic marker in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we cloned and characterized the white gene in an important pest of the fruit industry, Bactrocera dorsalis, to understand its functional role in pigmentation. We obtained BdWhite knockout strains, based on the wild-ty...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Bai X,Zeng T,Ni XY,Su HA,Huang J,Ye GY,Lu YY,Qi YX

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurone membrane proteins (SNMPs) function as essential cofactors for insect sex pheromone detection. In this study, we report two SNMPs in Ectropis obliqua Prout, a serious geometrid pest that produces typical Type-II sex pheromones. Sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses showed that EoblSNMP1 and Eobl...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sun L,Wang Q,Zhang Y,Yan Y,Guo H,Xiao Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphofructokinase (PFK) is a rate-limiting enzyme in glycolysis, but its linkage with locomotion in termites is not well understood, despite the demonstrated involvement of this gene in the locomotion of different animals. Here, we investigated the effect of the pfk gene on locomotion in the subterranean termite Ret...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hassan A,Huang Q,Xu H,Wu J,Mehmood N

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a predicted compact cysteine-rich sequence in the honey bee genome that we called 'Raalin'. Raalin transcripts are enriched in the brain of adult honey bee workers and drones, with only minimum expression in other tissues or in pre-adult stages. Open-reading frame (ORF) homologues of Raalin were identifi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tirosh Y,Morpurgo N,Cohen M,Linial M,Bloch G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfaction plays an important role in insects in recognizing volatile compounds, which are used to find food and mates, as well as avoid danger, predators and pathogens. The key players in the detection of volatile compounds are olfactory receptor (OR) proteins, which are located within the dendritic membrane of sensor...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Liu C,Liu Y,Guo M,Cao D,Dong S,Wang G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone esterases (JHEs) are required for the degradation of juvenile hormones (JHs) in insects. Here, we report the cloning and analysis of the jhe gene in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, a model insect of Coleoptera. The Tcjhe gene was strongly expressed at the final instar larva, as would be exp...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tsubota T,Minakuchi C,Nakakura T,Shinoda T,Shiotsuki T

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone is fundamental for regulating moulting and metamorphosis in immature insects, and it plays a role in physiological regulation in adult insects. This hormone acts by binding and activating a receptor, the ecdysone receptor, which is part of the nuclear receptor gene superfamily. Here, we ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Nascimento PVP,Almeida-Oliveira F,Macedo-Silva A,Ausina P,Motinha C,Sola-Penna M,Majerowicz D

更新日期：2021-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosuppressins are a family of the FMRFamide-like peptides. They have been characterized in many insects and shown to inhibit visceral muscle contraction. Rhodnius prolixus possesses an unusual myosuppressin in that the typical FLRFamide C-terminal motif is unique and ends with FMRFamide. In the present study, we isol...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Lee D,James TE,Lange AB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects and other arthropods have an effective innate immune system that can clear infections with bacteria and other microorganisms. Despite this ability, one group of bacteria, the spiroplasmas, survive unharmed within the haemolymph of a wide range of arthropod hosts. We investigated the interaction between one mem...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hurst GD,Anbutsu H,Kutsukake M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, is a major threat to rice production. The eggshell plays an important role in insect reproduction. The constituents and formation process of BPH eggshells remains largely unknown. Here, we report a novel eggshell-associated protein, NlChP38, containing an amelogenin dom...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Lou YH,Lu JB,Li DT,Ye YX,Luo XM,Zhang CX

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) photolyases repair ultraviolet (UV)-induced DNA damage using blue light. To get insight in the origin of baculovirus CPD photolyase (phr) genes, homologues in the lepidopteran insects Chrysodeixis chalcites, Spodoptera exigua and Trichoplusia ni were identified and characterized. Lep...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Biernat MA,Ros VI,Vlak JM,van Oers MM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemocyanins constitute a group of copper-containing respiratory proteins, and hexamerins were derived from hexapod haemocyanin but lost the ability to transport oxygen and serve as storage proteins. Although hexamerins have been reported in most insect species, none of them has been identified in Collembola, one of t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Liang Y,Xie W,Luan YX

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive polymorphism may be common in immune system genes as co-evolutionary interactions foster diversity; either through ongoing positive selection (arms races), or balancing selection. DNA sequence diversity in two putative immune system genes was examined in species of the genus Anopheles and from Aedes aegypti. ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Little TJ,Cobbe N

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of Aedes aegypti was recently reported. A significant amount of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) were sequenced to aid in the gene prediction process. In the present work we describe an integrated analysis of the genomic and EST data, focusing on genes with preferential expression in larvae (LG), adu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Venancio TM,Cristofoletti PT,Ferreira C,Verjovski-Almeida S,Terra WR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loxosceles intermedia venom comprises a complex mixture of proteins, glycoproteins and low molecular mass peptides that act synergistically to immobilize envenomed prey. Analysis of a venom-gland transcriptome from L. intermedia revealed that knottins, also known as inhibitor cystine knot peptides, are the most abunda...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Matsubara FH,Meissner GO,Herzig V,Justa HC,Dias BC,Trevisan-Silva D,Gremski LH,Gremski W,Senff-Ribeiro A,Chaim OM,King GF,Veiga SS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of a serine protease (AgSp24D) from the human malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, is presented. The gene product is a 271 amino acid protein that contains the conserved serine, histidine and aspartic acid residues found in serine proteases, and has the highest identity to ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Han YS,Salazar CE,Reese-Stardy SR,Cornel A,Gorman MJ,Collins FH,Paskewitz SM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids of the insect cuticle have important roles in resistance against the arid environment and invasion of foreign substances. Fatty acid synthase (FAS) is an important enzyme of the insect lipid synthesis pathway. In the present study, we identified three FAS genes from transcriptome data of the migratory locust, L...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yang Y,Zhao X,Niu N,Zhao Y,Liu W,Moussian B,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microarray analysis of 14 900 genes of the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, shows that as many as 33% (4924) of their corresponding transcription products vary in abundance within 24 h after a blood meal. Approximately half (2388) of these products increase in their accumulation and the remainder (2536) d...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Marinotti O,Nguyen QK,Calvo E,James AA,Ribeiro JM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the first systematic work to discover insect genes involved in food breakdown using a cDNA library enriched for gut-expressed transcripts from Callosobruchus maculatus. A total of 1056 clones were screened for cDNA insert-containing plasmids, and 503 nonredundant open reading frames were discovered. T...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Pedra JH,Brandt A,Westerman R,Lobo N,Li HM,Romero-Severson J,Murdock LL,Pittendrigh BR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-dependent division of labour in honeybees was shown to be connected to sensory response thresholds. Foragers show a higher gustatory responsiveness than nurse bees. It is generally assumed that nutrition-related signalling pathways underlie this behavioural plasticity. Here, one important candidate gene is the for...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thamm M,Sturm K,Schlossmann J,Scheiner R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00