The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex: Tettigoniidae: Orthoptera) and an analysis of control region variability.

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 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 the brain of holometabolous insects such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the fruitless gene produces sex-specific gene products under the control of the sex-specific splicing cascade and contributes to the formation of the sexually dimorphic circuits. Similar sex-specific gene products of fruitless homolo...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Watanabe T

更新日期：2019-12-01 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

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：:The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a major pest to agriculture. Adults are able to fly for long distances and to colonize staple crops, herbs and ornamentals, and to vector viruses belonging to several important taxonomic groups. During their early development, whiteflies mature from eggs through several nymphal stages (i...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Bar L,Czosnek H,Sobol I,Ghanim M,Hariton Shalev A

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:In the present study, we characterized a full-length cDNA encoding a putative iron-binding protein transferrin from the lepidopteran Mediterranean flour moth (EkTrf, 2397 bp). The putative EkTrf is 683 amino acids with a molecular mass of approximately 76 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence showed significant homolog...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Guz N,Kilincer N,Aksoy S

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:In Culex pipiens mosquitoes, A2 esterase alleles are co-amplified with B2 esterase alleles in response to selection with organophosphate insecticides. In this study the amplified A2 and B2 sequences were compared between twelve strains from four continents by restriction mapping. The restriction maps were almost ident...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Callaghan A,Guillemaud T,Makate N,Raymond M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：:Juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) activity in the haemolymph of the Colorado potato beetle is necessary to initiate pupation in larvae as well as diapause in adults. The enzyme appears in the haemolymph as a dimer consisting of two 57 kDa subunits. The sequence of an encoding cDNA, JHE.A, is distinct from lepidopteran J...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Vermunt AM,Koopmanschap AB,Vlak JM,de Kort CA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolating an unknown gene with fine-scale mapping is possible in a "non-model" organism. Sex determination in honey bees consists of a single locus (sex locus) with several complementary alleles. Diploid females are heterozygous at the sex locus, whereas haploid males arise from unfertilized eggs and are hemizygous. T...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hasselmann M,Fondrk MK,Page RE,Beye M

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Two piggyBac-like elements (PLEs) were identified in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, and were designated as HaPLE1 and HaPLE2. HaPLE1 is flanked by 16 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) and the duplicated TTAA tetranucleotide, and contains an open reading frame (ORF) of 1794 bp with the presumed DDD domain...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sun ZC,Wu M,Miller TA,Han ZJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Two genes encoding sterol carrier protein-2 like proteins are identified from fourth instar cDNAs of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. The predicted AeSCP-2like1 (AeSCP-2L1) and AeSCP-2like2 (AeSCP-2L2) proteins are small, acidic and lacking the peroxisomal targeting sequence at the C-termini. Purified recombi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Vyazunova I,Wessley V,Kim M,Lan Q

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Acetylation is an important, reversible posttranslational modification to a protein. In a previous study, we found that there were a large number of acetylated sites in various nutrient storage proteins of the silkworm haemolymph. In this study, we confirmed that acetylation can affect the stability of nutrient storag...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yang F,Zhu B,Liu J,Liu Y,Jiang C,Sheng Q,Qiu J,Nie Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline transformation using a piggyBac-derived vector is feasible in the sawfly, Athalia rosae. A previously generated transgenic line carrying green fluorescence protein (GFP) genes as reporters was successfully maintained and preserved without consecutive rearing. Sperm taken from males that were frozen directly i...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hatakeyama M,Sumitani M

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:A new piggyBac-related transposable element (TE) was found in the genome of a mutant Anticarsia gemmatalis multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus interrupting an inhibitor of apoptosis gene. This mutant virus induces apoptosis upon infection of an Anticarsia gemmatalis cell line, but not in a Trichoplusia ni cell line. The seq...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Carpes MP,Nunes JF,Sampaio TL,Castro ME,Zanotto PM,Ribeiro BM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450s are a superfamily of haemoproteins, important in the metabolism of endogenous compounds and xenobiotics. As a first step to elucidating the role of this family in insecticide resistance in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, we have cloned and mapped multiple P450 genes. Sixteen cDNAs encoding fu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ranson H,Nikou D,Hutchinson M,Wang X,Roth CW,Hemingway J,Collins FH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila homeodomain-interacting protein kinase (Hipk) is a versatile regulator involved in a variety of pathways, such as Notch and Wingless signalling, thereby acting in processes including the promotion of eye development or control of cell numbers in the nervous system. In vertebrates, extensive studies have...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Dewald DN,Steinmetz EL,Walldorf U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs of Anopheles gambiae Defensin 2 (AgDef2), Defensin 3 (AgDef3) and Defensin 4 (AgDef4), identified in the genome sequence, have been characterized and their expression profiles investigated. In contrast to both typical defensins and insect antimicrobial peptides generally, the newly identified defensins were not ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Meredith JM,Hurd H,Lehane MJ,Eggleston P

更新日期：2008-04-01 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