Isolation and characterization of a termite transferrin gene up-regulated on infection.

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：:Injection of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) corresponding to the silkworm white gene (Bmwh3) into preblastoderm eggs of the wild-type silkworm induced phenotypes similar to those observed with mutants of the white egg 3 locus (10-19.6). The induced phenotypes were characterized by the presence of white eggs and transluce...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Quan GX,Kanda T,Tamura T

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Insect chitin deacetylases (CDAs) are carbohydrate esterases that catalyze N-deacetylation of chitin to generate chitosan, a process essential for chitin organization and compactness during the formation of extracellular chitinous structure. Here we identified two CDA2 splice variants (LdCDA2a and LdCDA2b) in Leptinot...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wu JJ,Chen ZC,Wang YW,Fu KY,Guo WC,Li GQ

更新日期：2019-02-01 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

abstract：:Two isolates of bacterial endosymbionts, GP01 and GM02, were established in cell free medium from haemolymph of the tsetse, Glossina pallidipes and G. morsitans. These microorganisms appear similar to rickettsia-like organisms reported previously from various tsetse species. The 16S rRNA sequence analysis, however, pl...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Beard CB,O'Neill SL,Mason P,Mandelco L,Woese CR,Tesh RB,Richards FF,Aksoy S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel receptor guanylyl cyclase (GC) has been identified from the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and has been designated BdmGC-1. Protein domain analysis revealed that BdmGC-1 possesses a characteristic domain organization similar to all known receptor GCs but with a unique carboxyl-terminal extensi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chang JC,Yang RB,Chen YH,Lu KH

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：: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：:We have isolated a novel gene, CLEM 36, of the flesh fly Sarcophaga peregrina, which shows significant homology to the C-type lectin family. CLEM 36 mRNA was transcribed excessively from the second day after eclosion only in the tip of mouthparts. Whole mount in situ hybridization showed that CLEM 36 mRNA was expresse...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yamamoto-Kihara M,Kotani E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most, if not all non-Drosophila insect systems, the study of gene regulation relies on in vitro analyses. With the aim of providing an in vivo assay, we developed an original protocol using the Bombyx mori silk gland, by which the functioning of cloned gene promoters can be efficiently measured. This consists of in...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Horard B,Mangé A,Pélissier B,Couble P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we describe the peculiar structures and preferential codon usage found in wild silkworm fibroin genes. We determined a 1350 bp nucleotide sequence from the Chinese oak silkworm, Antheraea pernyi. The deduced amino acid sequence was partitioned into thirteen polyalanine-containing repetitive motifs, which...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yukuhiro K,Kanda T,Tamura T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanization constitutes an important component in various aspects of insect life, including cuticular sclerotization, egg-shell tanning, melanization of parasites and wound healing. Recently, a cDNA encoding prophenoloxidase (pro-PO), a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of melanotic material in insects, was cloned from ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Huang LH,Christensen BM,Chen CC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a PCR assay to screen 404 insects and related arthropods for mariner elements using primers corresponding to amino acids conserved between the mariner elements of Drosophila mauritiana and a moth, Hyalophora cecropia. Potential mariner elements were detected in sixty-three species, representing ten insect...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Robertson HM,MacLeod EG

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The insect digestive system is the first line of defence protecting cells and tissues of the body from a broad spectrum of toxins and antinutritional factors in its food. To gain insight into the nature and breadth of genes involved in adaptation to dietary challenge, a collection of 20 352 cDNAs was prepared from the...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chi YH,Salzman RA,Balfe S,Ahn JE,Sun W,Moon J,Yun DJ,Lee SY,Higgins TJ,Pittendrigh B,Murdock LL,Zhu-Salzman K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culex quinquefasciatus is a vector of many diseases that adversely impact human and animal health; however, compared to other mosquito vectors limited genome engineering technologies have been characterized for this vector. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) bas...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Li M,Li T,Liu N,Raban RR,Wang X,Akbari OS

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Insect mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) analysis is a powerful tool for the study of population genetics and phylogenetics. In the past few years primer sequences for the PCR amplification of various insect mtDNA genes have been published. The objectives of this study were (1) present new primer sequences for six insect m...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kambhampati S,Smith PT

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptides and their G protein-coupled receptors are widespread throughout Metazoa and in several cases, clear orthologues can be identified in both protostomes and deuterostomes. One such neuropeptide is the insect adipokinetic hormone (AKH), which is related to the mammalian gonadotropin-releasing hormone. AKH ha...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zandawala M,Hamoudi Z,Lange AB,Orchard I

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：:Three genes encoding clan MB metalloproteinases (EpMP1-3) were identified from venom glands of the ectoparasitic wasp Eulophus pennicornis. The derived amino acid sequences predict mature proteins of approximately 46 kDa, with a novel two-domain structure comprising a C-terminal reprolysin domain, and an N-terminal do...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Price DR,Bell HA,Hinchliffe G,Fitches E,Weaver R,Gatehouse JA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene from the Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) Ceratitis capitata, belonging to the hsp70 family of genes, has been cloned and characterized. This gene appears to be an example of a heat shock cognate (hsc) gene based on a variety of structural and functional criteria. The heat shock cognate genes serve critical rol...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thanaphum S,Haymer DS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has led to the idea that derived traits can arise through the evolution of novel roles for conserved genes. We explored whether neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like signalling, a conserved pathway that regulates food-related behaviour, is involved in a derived, nutritionally-related trait, the division of labou...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ament SA,Velarde RA,Kolodkin MH,Moyse D,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine protease gene fragments approximately 480 nucleotides in length were amplified from Ctenocephalides felis larval and adult cDNA libraries using degenerate oligonucleotide PCR primers. Partial clones of thirty-eight distinct serine protease encoding sequences were isolated, and nineteen different full-length cDN...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gaines PJ,Sampson CM,Rushlow KE,Stiegler GL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A homologue of the Drosophila melanogaster eye-colour gene, scarlet (st), has been isolated from the genome of the tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni. The comparison of the B. tryoni and D. melanogaster scarlet gene shows 71.2% and 79.3% sequence identity at the DNA and the derived amino acid level, respectively. ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhao JT,Bennett CL,Stewart GJ,Frommer M,Raphael KA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites are important molecular markers used in numerous genetic contexts. Despite this widespread use, the evolutionary processes governing microsatellite distribution and diversity remain controversial. Here, we present results on the distribution of microsatellites of three species in the parasitic wasp gen...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Pannebakker BA,Niehuis O,Hedley A,Gadau J,Shuker DM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are important chaperones, which are involved in various signal pathways and regulate lots of physiological processes. Early research suggested that some Hsps are involved in insect development. However, few studies have been carried out to explore the roles of Hsps, especially in larval-pupa...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gu J,Huang LX,Shen Y,Huang LH,Feng QL

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00