Variation in the pH of experimental diets affects the performance of Lymantria dispar asiatica larvae and its gut microbiota.

abstract：:Genetic engineering of plants using transgenic technology is targeted to enhance agronomic performance or improved quality traits in a wide variety of plant species, and has become a fundamental tool for basic research in plant biotechnology. Constitutive promoters are presently the primary means used to express trans...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tavva VS,Palli SR,Dinkins RD,Collins GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In insect gap junctions, species-specific differences occur in response to the purported gap junction uncoupling agent, 1-octanol. Changes in gap junctional communication between oocytes and their epithelial cells following treatment with 1-octanol were assayed in Oncopeltus fasciatus (the milkweed bug), Hyalophora ce...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Adler EL,Woodruff RI

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo treatments of female sex pheromone glands of the processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, with mass-labeled fatty acids showed that (Z)-13-hexadecen-11-ynyl acetate, the main sex pheromone component, is biosynthesized from palmitic acid by the combined action of delta-11 and delta-13 desaturases. The invol...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Arsequell G,Fabriàs G,Camps F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V-ATPases are ubiquitous proton pumps found in eukaryotes, and are important in regulating the pH of cell compartments and in creating membrane potentials. The V-ATPase creates a proton gradient that is used as an energy source for the transport of other ions. The 16-kDa proteolipid is the proton-translocating subunit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Holmes SP,Frazier SK,Pietrantonio PV

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yolk platelets from Rhodnius prolixus, a blood-sucking bug, are composed mostly of vitellin and here are shown to contain at least two hydrolytic enzymes, a phosphatase and a cathepsin D-like proteinase. Both the proteinase and the phosphatase have an acid pH optimum. No hydrolytic activity was observed under alka...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Nussenzveig RH,Oliveira PL,Masuda H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At 22°C and under a long-day photoperiod of L:D 16:8, all the last fifth instar Loxostege sticticalis larvae undergo prepupal stage and pupate without diapause. Under a short-day photoperiod of L:D 12:12, in contrast, they all enter diapause with approximately 36 days diapause maintenance and then terminate diapause s...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Jiang X,Huang S,Luo L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Labial glands of Helicoverpa zea produced a glucose oxidase (GOX), which was present in the saliva and midgut lumen. We purified GOX 23-fold by isoelectric focusing of labial gland homogenates and investigated physical and kinetic properties of the enzyme. D-glucose and 6-deoxy-D-glucose were the optimal substrates of...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Eichenseer H,Mathews MC,Bi JL,Murphy JB,Felton GW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect chitinases are a multigene family that is encoded by a rather large and diverse group of genes. The main function of chitinases is to digest the chitin contained in tissues such as the cuticles and gut lining during molting. In this study, we examined the role of a chitinase (SeChi) and a bacterial type chitina...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhang D,Chen J,Yao Q,Pan Z,Chen J,Zhang W

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecdysteroids, or molting hormones, have been proven to be key differentiation regulators for epidermal cells in the postembryonic development of arthropods. Regulators of cell proliferation, however, remain largely unknown. To date, no diffusible insect peptidic growth factors have been characterized. Molecules struct...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Hatt PJ,Liebon C,Morinière M,Oberlander H,Porcheron P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Na(+)/H(+) exchanger (NHE) on the apical membrane of mosquito Malpighian tubule (MT) cells is believed to participate in the blood-feeding mosquito's vital secretion of Na(+) and fluid. This study presents the molecular cloning, primary structure, and tissue distribution of two cDNAs encoding Aedes aegypti mosquito ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Hart SJ,Knezetic JA,Petzel DH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neosurugatoxin (NSTX), a neurotoxin isolated from the Japanese ivory mollusc Babylonia japonica, is a potent neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist. Hitherto, NSTX has been found to block only neuronal nAChRs that are insensitive to alpha-Bgt. Here, we report for the first time that NSTX blocks a...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Bai D,Sattelle DB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrocarbon and wax ester components of cuticular lipids of the braconid parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor Say reared at 25 degrees C on larvae of a pyralid moth have been identified by GC-MS and analyzed with respect to adult age, mating status, and diet. The hydrocarbons range in carbon number from C(21) to C(45) and c...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Howard RW,Baker JE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucosidase inhibitor 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (DIA) was used to investigate the action of hypertrehalosemic hormone (HTH) on carbohydrate, neutral lipid, and phospholipid metabolism in the hemolymph and fat body of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. DIA blocked the hypertrehalosemic and hyperglycemic...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Oguri E,Steele JE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns the effect of heat shock on host-pathogen interaction in Galleria mellonella infected with Bacillus thuringiensis. We show enhanced activity against Gram-positive bacteria in the hemolymph of larvae pre-exposed to heat shock before infection with B. thuringiensis. Heat shock influenced the protein...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Taszłow P,Wojda I

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The larvae and adults of Aedes aegypti were tested for the potential to develop resistance to the synthetic pyrethroid, deltamethrin, alone or a combination of deltamethrin with the synergist, piperonyl butoxide (PBO). Although continuous larval selection for 40 generations resulted in 703-fold resistance, the resista...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kumar S,Thomas A,Sahgal A,Verma A,Samuel T,Pillai MK

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exposed midgut cells from primary cultures of Heliothis virescens larvae to cell-free previously used medium, the Vaughn X and HyQ SFtrade mark media used for serum-free culture of insect cell lines which do not support H. virescens midgut cells, and to toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. A statistically significant...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Loeb MJ,Hakim RS,Martin P,Narang N,Goto S,Takeda M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy (autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process involved in physiological and developmental processes including cell survival, death, and innate immunity. Homologues of most of 36 originally discovered autophagy-related (ATG) genes in yeast have been characterized in higher eukaryotes inclu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tindwa H,Jo YH,Patnaik BB,Noh MY,Kim DH,Kim I,Han YS,Lee YS,Lee BL,Kim NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pteromalus puparum is a gregarious pupal endoparasitoid with a wide host range. It deposits eggs into pierid and papilionid butterfly pupae. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of multifunctional detoxification enzymes that act in xenobiotic metabolism in insects. Insect genome projects have facilitated ide...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xu G,Teng ZW,Gu GX,Guo L,Wang F,Xiao S,Wang JL,Wang BB,Fang Q,Wang F,Song QS,Stanley D,Ye GY

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THQ (1-aroyl-4-(arylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline) compounds were identified by FMC Corporation in cell-based assays that used ecdysone receptors from Drosophila melanogaster, Heliothis virescens, or Plodia interpunctata. THQ compounds showed weak insecticidal activity against H. virescens and, therefore, were no...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Palli SR,Tice CM,Margam VM,Clark AM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molting is the result of the expression of a cascade of genes that is sequentially both up and down-regulated by the molting hormone, 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), which is secreted as a pulse during each instar. Benzoyl hydrazine analogs of 20E act like the native molting hormone at the molecular level by binding with th...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Retnakaran A,Krell P,Feng Q,Arif B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE, peptidyl dipeptidase A) in metamorphic- and reproductive-related events in the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) was studied by using the selective ACE inhibitor captopril. Although oral administration of captopril had no effect on ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vercruysse L,Gelman D,Raes E,Hooghe B,Vermeirssen V,Van Camp J,Smagghe G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trypsin inhibitor purified from the seeds of the Manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce (PDTI), was studied for its effects on growth parameters and developmental stages of Helicoverpa armigera. PDTI exhibited inhibitory activity against bovine trypsin (∼86%; ∼1.33 ug/ml IC50). The inhibitory activity of PDTI was una...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Pandey PK,Singh D,Jamal F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octopamine (OCT)/tyramine (TYR) analogues, mainly including p- and beta-substituted phenylethylamines, were prepared as probes for the ligand-binding site(s) of adenylate cyclase-coupled OCT or TYR receptors, and were examined for their effects on cAMP production in the head membranes of Bombyx mori larvae. Small stru...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aoyama M,Nakane T,Ono T,Khan MA,Ohta H,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When diapause and non-diapause eggs of the same bivoltine strain of Bombyx mori were chilled at 5 degrees C for more than 30 days, the hatchability of diapause eggs increased while that of non-diapause eggs decreased, respectively. To investigate the relationship between effects of chilling on the hatchability and the...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhao LC,Shi LG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larvae of Chironomus riparius respond to ion-poor and brackish water (IPW, BW) conditions by activating ion uptake mechanisms in the anal papillae and reducing ion absorption at the rectum, respectively. The role that the Malpighian tubules play in ion and osmoregulation under these conditions is not known in this spe...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zadeh-Tahmasebi M,Bui P,Donini A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molting in crustaceans is induced by ecdysteroids as in insects. The ecdysteroid titre in hemolymph is negatively regulated by molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH) that inhibits the secretion of ecdysteroids from the Y-organ, an ecdysteroid-producing gland of crustaceans, whereas little is known about the molecular mechanism...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Asazuma H,Nagata S,Nagasawa H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death that is regulated by genes independently. The Bm30kc6 gene is a kind of small molecular lipoprotein about 30 kDa, expressed highly in the late stage of the silkworm hemolymph. Our study showed that overexpression of Bm30kc6 could decrease caspase-3 activation. Meanwhile,...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xiao Y,Li LL,Bibi A,Zhang N,Chen T,Mo Y,Yue W,Miao Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the Spodoptera frugiperda allatostatin type-A peptide family (Y/FXFGL-amides) was isolated from S. frugiperda brain cDNA. The gene encodes a precursor of 231 amino acids containing nine (or ten) Y/FXFGL-a peptides that are tandemly arranged in three blocks. The comparison of the Spofr-AST A precursor...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Abdel-Latief M,Meyering-Vos M,Hoffmann KH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have analyzed the changes of the ovarian nutritional resources in Dipetalogaster maxima at representative days of the reproductive cycle: previtellogenesis, vitellogenesis, as well as fasting-induced early and late atresia. As expected, the amounts of ovarian lipids, proteins, and glycogen increased ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Leyria J,Fruttero LL,Aguirre SA,Canavoso LE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), plays roles in a variety of cellular responses. However, limited information is available on the relationship between ERKs and environmental stresses. In this report, an ERK gene, AccERK2, was cloned and characterized from Apis cer...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Li Y,Zhang L,Kang M,Guo X,Baohua Xu

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00