Genes of the antioxidant system of the honey bee: annotation and phylogeny.

abstract：:A cDNA fragment of haemolymph juvenile hormone binding protein (hJHBP) from larvae of Bombyx mori was amplified by RT-PCR using degenerate primers based on the N-terminal amino acid sequence of purified hJHBP and a conserved region near the C-terminus of other lepidopteran hJHBPs. 5'- and 3'-ends were amplified by RAC...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Vermunt AM,Kamimura M,Hirai M,Kiuchi M,Shiotsuki T

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:The sulfakinins are multifunctional insect neuropeptides displaying sequence similarities with the gastrin/ cholecystokinin (CCK) peptide family. In vertebrates, the peptides gastrin and CCK are involved in the regulation of digestion and food-intake. In this study sulfakinin cDNA was cloned and sequenced from the Med...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Meyering-Vos M,Müller A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Hymenoptera represent a remarkably diverse and socioeconomically important group that is of considerable interest in genome biology, they remain understudied in terms of genome size. This study reports new genome size estimates for 89 species of ants, bees and wasps, representing 17 families and four supe...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ardila-Garcia AM,Umphrey GJ,Gregory TR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, consists of two host strains (rice and corn) that differ in developmental, physiological and behavioural characteristics. However, because the strains are morphologically indistinguishable the investigation of strain-specific behaviour, particularly in the wild, is very diffic...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Nagoshi RN,Meagher R

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:The pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) is the first whole genome sequenced insect with a hemimetabolic development and an emerging model organism for studies in ecology, evolution and development. The insect steroid moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) controls and coordinates development in insects, especially the ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Christiaens O,Iga M,Velarde RA,Rougé P,Smagghe G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study Drosophila larvae were injected with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) suspended in 1% ethanol and differentially induced protein fractions were identified. The levels of several proteins, including alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), increased in LPS-treated flies and were labelled as immune response prot...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Schlenke TA,McKean KA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based subtractive hybridization was used to isolate genes preferentially expressed in a termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis) following exposure to an entomopathogenic fungus. The subtraction procedure yielded a cDNA clone encoding a putative transferrin that, when sequenced to its ends, is the largest (728 amino aci...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thompson GJ,Crozier YC,Crozier RH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fat body of the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, a cycle of ribosome accumulation and degradation accompanies synthesis of the yolk protein precursor, vitellogenin. Here we compare the transcription and translation of ribosomal proteins rpS6, rpL8 and rpL34, relative to rRNA and vitellogenin genes in Aedes aegypti fat body...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Niu LL,Fallon AM

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：: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：:Knockdown Resistance to High Temperature (KRHT) is an adaptive trait of thermotolerance in insects. An interval mapping was performed on chromosome X of Drosophila melanogaster to search for quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting KRHT. A backcross population was obtained from two lines that dramatically differ for KR...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Norry FM,Sambucetti P,Scannapieco AC,Gomez FH,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:E26 transformation-specific (Ets) family transcription factors are known to play roles in various biological phenomena, including immunity, in vertebrates. However, the mechanisms by which Ets proteins contribute to immunity in invertebrates remain poorly understood. In this study, we identified a cDNA encoding BmEts2...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tanaka H,Sagisaka A,Suzuki N,Yamakawa M

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：:The piggyBac IFP2 transposable element, originally discovered in a Trichoplusia ni cell line, also exists as nearly identical elements in other noctuid lepidopterans, and in several species of the tephritid genus Bactrocera. To further define the distribution of piggyBacs in Bactrocera, and compare their relationship ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Handler AM,Zimowska GJ,Armstrong KF

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D7 subfamily of salivary proteins is widespread in blood sucking Diptera and belongs to the superfamily of pheromone/odourant binding proteins. Although D7 proteins are among the most abundant salivary proteins in adult female mosquitoes and sand flies, their role in blood feeding remains elusive. In the present w...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Valenzuela JG,Charlab R,Gonzalez EC,de Miranda-Santos IK,Marinotti O,Francischetti IM,Ribeiro JM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecdysteroids, as the key growth hormones, regulate moulting, metamorphosis and reproduction in arthropods. Ecdysteroid biosynthesis is catalysed by a series of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYP450s) encoded by Halloween genes, including spook (spo), phantom (phm), disembodied (dib), shadow (sad) and shade (shd). The...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yang ZM,Yu N,Wang SJ,Korai SK,Liu ZW

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:Insect chitin synthase is an essential enzyme involved in chitin biosynthesis in insects. Chitin synthase A (CHSA) is expressed in different insect tissues during different developmental stages. CHSA contains alternative-splicing exons that allow tissue- and development-specific chitin synthesis. Here, we report that ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Qu M,Yang Q

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activity of nuclear receptors is the result of transactivation capability and the concentration of the receptor protein. The concentration of ecdysteroid receptor (EcR) isoforms, constitutively expressed in mammalian CHO cells, is dependent on a number of factors. As shown previously, ligand binding st...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Schauer S,Burster T,Spindler-Barth M

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：:Representatives of five distinct types of transposable elements of the mariner family were detected in the genomes of the Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni and its sibling species Bactrocera neohumeralis by phylogenetic analysis of transposase gene fragments. Three mariner types were also found in an additional t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Green CL,Frommer M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogenic amine receptor genes constitute an ancient and highly divergent family within the larger superfamily of G-protein-coupled receptors. These receptors play a central role in modulating nerve cell activity and thus behaviour. Because the honey bee offers numerous advantages for behavioural studies we endeavo...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ebert PR,Rowland JE,Toma DP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culicoides spp. are vectors of several infectious diseases of veterinary importance and a major cause of allergy in horses and other livestock. Their saliva contains a number of proteins which enable blood feeding, enhance disease transmission and act as allergens. We report the construction of a novel cDNA library fr...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Russell CL,Heesom KJ,Arthur CJ,Helps CR,Mellor PS,Day MJ,Torsteinsdottir S,Björnsdóttir TS,Wilson AD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anabrus simplex is a swarming plague orthopteran found in western North America. The genome is 15 766 bp in length and genome organization follows the ancestral insect gene arrangement. atp6 lacked any readily identifiable stop codon. Examination of mRNA secondary structure for this gene suggested a stem/loop-medi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Fenn JD,Cameron SL,Whiting MF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline transformation of Drosophila melanogaster was attempted with the piggyBac gene-transfer system from the cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni. Using a self-regulated transposase helper and a white marked vector, a transformation frequency of 1-3% per fertile G0 was obtained, similar to that previously achieved...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Handler AM,Harrell RA 2nd

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00