Highly similar piggyBac elements in Bactrocera that share a common lineage with elements in noctuid moths.

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：: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：: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

abstract：:The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis synthesizes toxins (delta-endotoxins) that are highly specific for insects. Once ingested, the activated form of the toxin binds to a specific receptor(s) located on the midgut epithelial cells, inserts into the membrane causing the formation of leakage pores and eventual death of ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gill M,Ellar D

更新日期：2002-12-01 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 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：:We have isolated and determined the nucleotide sequences for cDNA clones encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) from the medfly Ceratitis capitata. The derived amino acid sequences for G6PD and 6PGD are presented and compared with G6PDs and 6PGDs from other specie...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Scott MJ,Kriticou D,Robinson AS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of constant improvements in sequencing technologies, numerous insect genomes have been sequenced. Currently, 1219 insect genome-sequencing projects have been registered with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, including 401 that have genome assemblies and 155 with an official gene set of ann...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Li F,Zhao X,Li M,He K,Huang C,Zhou Y,Li Z,Walters JR

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:A cadherin-like gene associated with larval midgut tissues was cloned from western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera: Coleoptera), an economically important agricultural pest in North America and Europe and the primary target pest species for corn hybrids expressing Cry3 toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sayed A,Nekl ER,Siqueira HA,Wang HC,Ffrench-Constant RH,Bagley M,Siegfried BD

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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 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：:Small RNA regulatory pathways are used to control the activity of transposons, regulate gene expression and resist infecting viruses. We examined the biogenesis of mRNA-derived endogenous short-interfering RNAs (endo-siRNAs) in the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti. Under standard conditions, mRNA-derived endo-siR...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Adelman ZN,Anderson MA,Liu M,Zhang L,Myles KM

更新日期：2012-06-01 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 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：: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：: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：:ATBP [(A+T)-stretch binding protein] activates the Sarcophaga defense protein genes in an (A+T)-stretch dependent manner as shown previously using a luciferase reporter assay [Aozasa et al. (2001) Eur J Biochem, 268, 2506-2511]. We identified the Drosophila homologue of ATBP. Drosophila ATBP has 388 amino acid residue...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Aozasa N,Kubo T,Sekimizu K,Natori S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P450 monooxygenases of insects are important in the metabolism of numerous endogenous and exogenous compounds. However, identity of the P450 isoform(s) involved in these reactions is rarely known. A critical first step in the identification of important P450s is the cloning and sequencing of their genes. Toward th...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kasai S,Scott JG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenoloxidases, including tyrosinases and laccases, are enzymes involved in the synthesis of melanin, a process that can be elicited during insect immune responses, cuticle maturation, wound healing and egg chorion development. We cloned a putative inhibitor of melanization (POI) from Anopheles gambiae on the basis of...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Shi L,Li B,Paskewitz SM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two different groups of piggyBac-like elements (PLE) in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens, and named them HvPLE1 and HvPLE2. An intact copy of HvPLE1 revealed the characteristics of PLE: inverted terminal repeats, inverted subterminal repeats, and an open reading frame encoding transposase, wherea...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wang J,Ren X,Miller TA,Park Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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：: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 pipiens quinquefasciatus Say and Culex pipiens pipiens Linnaeus are sibling species incriminated as important vectors of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases worldwide. The two forms differ little morphologically and are differentiated mainly based upon ecological, behavioural, physiological and genetic ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sanogo YO,Dobson SL,Bordenstein SR,Novak RJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：: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：:Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are important molecular players in insect olfaction, which has a great influence on the host-seeking behaviour of mosquitoes and other disease vectors. The mRNA level of the Anopheles gambiae Obp7 gene (Agam-Obp7) is higher in the adult female antennae and is slightly reduced in the fem...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sengul MS,Tu Z

更新日期：2008-12-01 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