Chemosensory proteins used as target for screening behaviourally active compounds in the rice pest Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

abstract：:We exposed adult male Drosophila melanogaster to cold, desiccation or starvation, and examined expression of several genes during exposure and recovery. Frost was expressed during recovery from cold, and was up-regulated during desiccation. Desiccation and starvation (but not cold) elicited increased expression of the...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sinclair BJ,Gibbs AG,Roberts SP

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：: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 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：:The phylogeny of the cryptic species complex of wasps in the genus Nasonia was inferred by analysis of nucleotide sequences of an rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) and the D2 region of 28S rDNA. Phylogenetic analysis showed that N. vitripennis descended from a theoretical common ancestor with that of a lineage t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Campbell BC,Steffen-Campbell JD,Werren JH

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：: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：:A birth-and-death evolutionary model for odorant receptor gene repertoires presumes the creation of repertoires with the capacity for high-level diversity and rapid ligand specificity change. This changes the recognised odour space, directly affecting fitness-related behaviours and ultimately affecting adaptation to n...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hill SR,Majeed S,Ignell R

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Phenotypic diversity is frequently generated by differences in gene expression. In this study, we addressed the relationship between homology in gene expression and phenotype among four species of eusocial wasps. Specifically, we investigated the evolution of caste-specific and sex-specific gene expression patterns as...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hunt BG,Goodisman MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone esterases (JHEs) are required for the degradation of juvenile hormones (JHs) in insects. Here, we report the cloning and analysis of the jhe gene in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, a model insect of Coleoptera. The Tcjhe gene was strongly expressed at the final instar larva, as would be exp...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tsubota T,Minakuchi C,Nakakura T,Shinoda T,Shiotsuki T

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Horizontal transfer (HT), the exchange of genetic material between species, plays important roles in transposon biology and genome evolution. In this study, we provide the first documented example of a new Academ transposon involved in recent and distant HTs into the genomes of species belonging to seven different ord...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang HH,Shen YH,Xiong XM,Han MJ,Qi DW,Zhang XG

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) photolyases repair ultraviolet (UV)-induced DNA damage using blue light. To get insight in the origin of baculovirus CPD photolyase (phr) genes, homologues in the lepidopteran insects Chrysodeixis chalcites, Spodoptera exigua and Trichoplusia ni were identified and characterized. Lep...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Biernat MA,Ros VI,Vlak JM,van Oers MM

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Target of rapamycin (TOR), a member of the phosphatidylinositol kinase-related kinase family, plays a critical role in the regulation of growth, metabolism, development and survival, at both the cellular and the organismal levels. Two paralogous Tor genes, BmTor1 and BmTor2, were identified as a pair of inverted repea...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhou S,Zhou Q,Liu Y,Wang S,Wen D,He Q,Wang W,Bendena WG,Li S

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：: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：:A cDNA (D7-8B) 1456 nucleotides in length was isolated from an adult, female-specific Anopheles gambiae library and identified as a member of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene family by virtue of the inferred amino acid sequence. The gene, AgGST2-1, specifies a protein that is 57% identical to the Drosophila me...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Reiss RA,James AA

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Full-length cDNA and genomic sequences for two genes (designated mdesprot-I and mdesprot-II) encoding digestive serine proteases in Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor, have been cloned and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequences revealed similarity with trypsin-like digestive serine proteases from other Diptera...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mittapalli O,Stuart JJ,Shukle RH

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：: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：:Baculovirus-host interactions are important models for studying the biological control of lepidopteran pests. Research on baculovirus-host interactions has focussed on baculovirus manipulation of cellular signalling pathways, including the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases/...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Jin S,Cheng T,Guo Y,Lin P,Zhao P,Liu C,Kusakabe T,Xia Q

更新日期：2018-08-01 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

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：: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：:Ligand-gated chloride channels (LGICs) are important targets for insecticides and parasiticides. Genes encoding subunits of two LGICs, a glutamate-gated chloride channel (MdGluCl-alpha) and a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel (MdRdl), were cloned from house-flies (Musca domestica L.). These genes w...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Eguchi Y,Ihara M,Ochi E,Shibata Y,Matsuda K,Fushiki S,Sugama H,Hamasaki Y,Niwa H,Wada M,Ozoe F,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00