An expansion of the genome size dataset for the insect order Hymenoptera, with a first test of parasitism and eusociality as possible constraints.

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：:Molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction between malarial sporozoites and putative receptor(s) on the salivary glands of Anopheles gambiae remain largely unknown. In previous studies, a salivary gland protein of ~100 kDa was identified as a putative target based on recognition of the protein by a monoclonal ant...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Okulate MA,Kalume DE,Reddy R,Kristiansen T,Bhattacharyya M,Chaerkady R,Pandey A,Kumar N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To begin to explore the molecular dynamics of rickettsial tick interaction, subtractive hybridization was used to screen mRNAs in Rickettsia montanensis-infected and uninfected Dermacentor variabilis. We isolated 30 cDNA fragments, 22 of which were up-regulated and eight were down-regulated in response to rickettsial ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mulenga A,Macaluso KR,Simser JA,Azad AF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemocyanins constitute a group of copper-containing respiratory proteins, and hexamerins were derived from hexapod haemocyanin but lost the ability to transport oxygen and serve as storage proteins. Although hexamerins have been reported in most insect species, none of them has been identified in Collembola, one of t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Liang Y,Xie W,Luan YX

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:A Drosophila P-element derivative (pUChsneo) integrated into the telomeric region of the left arm of the second chromosome of Anopheles gambiae was used to clone the proximally flanking An. gambiae sequences. Molecular analyses revealed that the pUChsneo construct was partially duplicated and had integrated into a sub...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Biessmann H,Donath J,Walter MF

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti is a major vector of arthropod-borne viruses such as yellow fever virus and dengue viruses. Efforts to discern the function of genes involved in important behaviours, such as vector competence and host seeking through reverse genetics, would greatly benefit from the ability to generate targeted gene disr...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Traver BE,Anderson MA,Adelman ZN

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:We screened a midgut cDNA library from diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, with a probe generated using sequence information from an aminopeptidase N gene from Manduca sexta (MsAPN-1). The sequence recovered (PxAPN-A) encodes a protein of 988 resides with a 60% sequence identity to MsAPN-1. The two proteins share a...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chang WX,Gahan LJ,Tabashnik BE,Heckel DG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autogeny, the ability of a mosquito to mature an initial batch of eggs without blood feeding, is an alternative reproductive strategy with important implications for vector-borne disease transmission. Regulation of the major yolk protein (vitellogenin; Vg) genes during bloodmeal-induced oogenesis is well studied, but ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Provost-Javier KN,Chen S,Rasgon JL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced cDNAs encoding proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) from Aedes albopictus cells and from Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The mosquito cDNAs contained an open reading frame encoding a 260 amino acid protein with a calculated mass of 29.0 kDa and a pI of 4.46. There was a single amino acid difference be...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ma L,Gerenday A,Coley KM,Fallon AM

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：:The genome sequence of Aedes aegypti was recently reported. A significant amount of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) were sequenced to aid in the gene prediction process. In the present work we describe an integrated analysis of the genomic and EST data, focusing on genes with preferential expression in larvae (LG), adu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Venancio TM,Cristofoletti PT,Ferreira C,Verjovski-Almeida S,Terra WR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-embryonic development in insects requires successive molts. Molts are triggered by ecdysteroids, and the nature of the molt (larval, pupal or adult) is determined by juvenile hormones. The genes encoding cuticle proteins are targets of both classes of hormones, and therefore are interesting models to study hormon...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Lestradet M,Gervasio E,Fraichard S,Dupas S,Alabouvette J,Lemoine A,Charles JP

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Reverse chemical ecology based on insect functional odorant binding proteins has been extensively studied to screen behaviourally active compounds, whereas chemosensory proteins (CSPs), which are reportedly involved in olfactory chemical reception and could serve as molecular targets remain unclear. In the present stu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Duan SG,Li DZ,Wang MQ

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Antioxidant enzymes perform a variety of vital functions including the reduction of life-shortening oxidative damage. We used the honey bee genome sequence to identify the major components of the honey bee antioxidant system. A comparative analysis of honey bee with Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae shows ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Corona M,Robinson GE

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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