Preservation of a transgenic strain of the sawfly, Athalia rosae (Hymenoptera) by artificial fertilization using cryopreserved sperm.

abstract：:The full-length Hsp90 cDNA in Delia antiqua was cloned and sequenced. The deduced polypeptide comprised 717 amino acid residues, with a molecular mass of 82 140 Da. Summer- and winter-diapauses both elevated HSP90 transcript levels in D. antiqua pupae. Levels gradually increased with time in summer diapausing pupae wh...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chen B,Kayukawa T,Monteiro A,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid degradation of odours after interaction with olfactory receptors is a critical step of the signal reception process. However, the implied mechanisms are still largely unknown in vertebrates as well as in insects. Involvement of odourant-degrading enzymes in odourant degradation within the antennae has been shown...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Merlin C,Rosell G,Carot-Sans G,François MC,Bozzolan F,Pelletier J,Jacquin-Joly E,Guerrero A,Maïbèche-Coisne M

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Antheraea assamensis is reared on various species of the Lauraceae family from north-east India for its distinctive cocoon silk. We demonstrate differential expression of digestive trypsin and chymotrypsins in larvae feeding on a primary host, Persea bombycina Kosterm., in comparison to larvae feeding on Litsea monope...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Saikia M,Singh YT,Bhattacharya A,Mazumdar-Leighton S

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of a serine protease (AgSp14D1) from the human malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, is presented. The gene product is a 360 amino acid protein that contains two domains and has the highest sequence similarity to the Drosophila melanogaster serine protease easter and to prop...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Paskewitz SM,Reese-Stardy S,Gorman MJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to permethrin in an East African population of the major malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae is multifactorial. A mutated sodium channel allele and enhanced insecticide metabolism contribute to the resistance phenotype. We used microsatellite markers to scan the genome for quantitative trait loci (QTL) associ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ranson H,Paton MG,Jensen B,McCarroll L,Vaughan A,Hogan JR,Hemingway J,Collins FH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll and related proteins play important roles in innate immunity in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In Drosophila melanogaster, Tehao shares a striking similarity in its intracellular domain with Toll. In this paper, we show that Tehao is expressed throughout development and appears to be glycosylated. In transie...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Luo C,Shen B,Manley JL,Zheng L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lucilia sericata maggots are used world-wide in biosurgery for the medical treatment of nonhealing wounds because they ingest necrotic tissues and significantly promote healing. To gain further insight into interdependencies between ecological adaptation and molecular evolution of innate immunity in Diptera, we used t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Altincicek B,Vilcinskas A

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Alphavirus transducing systems (ATSs) are alphavirus-based tools for expressing genes in insects. Here we describe an ATS (5'dsMRE16ic) based entirely on Sindbis MRE16 virus. GFP expression was used to characterize alimentary tract infections and dissemination in three Culicine and two Lepidopteran species. Following ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Foy BD,Myles KM,Pierro DJ,Sanchez-Vargas I,Uhlírová M,Jindra M,Beaty BJ,Olson KE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated multiple copies of mariner-like element (MLE) from the pink bollworm (PBW), Pectinophora gossypiella, a key lepidopteran cotton pest. Although all the MLE sequences contain multiple mutations accumulated in their transposase coding region, the consensus sequence revealed a putative ancestral transposase en...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wang J,Staten R,Miller TA,Park Y

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Insect chitinases are hydrolytic enzymes required for the degradation of chitin. They are essential for insect moulting and metamorphosis. In this study, the regulation mechanism of a chitinase gene, Bombyx mori chitinase 5 (BmCHT5), was studied. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that Bm...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang X,Zheng S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepidoptera is one of the most widespread insect orders and includes several agriculturally important insect species. Ecological success of the lepidopteran insects partly depends on their adaptive chemoreception tactics, which play an important role in the selection of hosts, egg-laying sites and mates. Members of th...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Agnihotri AR,Roy AA,Joshi RS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a promising method for validating gene function; however, its utility in nonmodel insects has proven problematic, with delivery methods being one of the main obstacles. This study investigates a novel method of RNAi delivery in aphids, the aerosolization of short interfering RNA ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thairu MW,Skidmore IH,Bansal R,Nováková E,Hansen TE,Li-Byarlay H,Wickline SA,Hansen AK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculovirus-host interactions are important models for studying the biological control of lepidopteran pests. Research on baculovirus-host interactions has focussed on baculovirus manipulation of cellular signalling pathways, including the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases/...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Jin S,Cheng T,Guo Y,Lin P,Zhao P,Liu C,Kusakabe T,Xia Q

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A birth-and-death evolutionary model for odorant receptor gene repertoires presumes the creation of repertoires with the capacity for high-level diversity and rapid ligand specificity change. This changes the recognised odour space, directly affecting fitness-related behaviours and ultimately affecting adaptation to n...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hill SR,Majeed S,Ignell R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hemimetabolous insects produce their own cellulase enzymes from the glycoside hydrolase family 9, first observed in termites and cockroaches. Phasmatodea have multiple cellulases, some of which are multifunctional and can degrade xylan or xyloglucan. To discover when these abilities evolved, we identified cellula...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Shelomi M,Wipfler B,Zhou X,Pauchet Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of insects that transmit disease and damage crops has become increasingly difficult. The ability to genetically engineer insects would facilitate strategies to protect crops and block arthropod vector-borne disease transmission. Transformation vectors based on insect transposable elements have been develop...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Jordan TV,Shike H,Boulo V,Cedeno V,Fang Q,Davis BS,Jacobs-Lorena M,Higgs S,Fryxell KJ,Burns JC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high number of (GT)n and (CT)n microsatellites were isolated from a partial genomic library of primitively eusocial wasp, Vespula rufa. On average, (GT)n and (CT)n repeats occur in the genome approximately every 8 kb and 2.5 kb respectively. This is the highest density of dinucleotide microsatellites reported in the...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thorén PA,Paxton RJ,Estoup A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) refers to the process of post-transcriptional silencing of cellular mRNA by the application of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNAi strategies have been widely employed to regulate gene expression in plants and animals including insects. With the availability of the full genome sequences of major ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Balakrishna Pillai A,Nagarajan U,Mitra A,Krishnan U,Rajendran S,Hoti SL,Mishra RK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm usage was investigated in an instrumentally inseminated honeybee queen. Her progeny were examined in the first 3 months of the egg-laying period using a microsatellite marker. Frequencies of different subfamilies differed significantly from one month to another. However, there was no evidence for sperm displacem...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Franck P,Coussy H,Le Conte Y,Solignac M,Garnery L,Cornuet JM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apis mellifera plays crucial roles in maintaining the balance of global ecosystems and stability of agricultural systems by helping pollination of flowering plants, including many crops. In recent years, this balance has been disrupted greatly by some pesticides, which results in great losses of honeybees worldwide. P...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hu YT,Tang CK,Wu CP,Wu PC,Yang EC,Tai CC,Wu YL

更新日期：2018-08-01 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 Asian rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae, is a fast evolving, damaging pest of rice. Understanding the underlying molecular mechanism of interaction between the gall midge and rice will help in devising strategies to control and manage the pest. The present study aims to identify rice-responsive genes in the gall mi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sinha DK,Bentur JS,Nair S

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:We previously identified a novel non-coding immediate early gene, termed kakusei , from the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and used it as a marker to detect neural activity in the brains of foraging workers (Kiya et al .,2007). Here, we investigated the detailed kakusei gene structure. Expression analysis revealed that, in...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kiya T,Kunieda T,Kubo T

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Hztransib, recently identified from Helicoverpa zea, represents the first intact and transcriptionally active Transib element. Its open reading frame was detected in Helicoverpa armigera, from which H. zea evolved, and in Helicoverpa assulta, the common ancestor of H. zea and H. armigera, but its remaining parts were ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Du E,Ni X,Zhao H,Li X

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00