Amelogenin domain-containing NlChP38 is necessary for normal ovulation in the brown planthopper.

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：:Vitellogenin (Vg) is a source of nutrition for embryo development. Our previous study showed that the silkworm (Bombyx mori) transcription factor broad complex isoform 2 (BmBrC-Z2) regulates gene expression of the Vg gene (BmVg) by induction with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). However, the mechanism by which 20E regulates ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Lin Y,Liu H,Yang C,Gu J,Shen G,Zhang H,Chen E,Han C,Zhang Y,Xu Y,Wu J,Xia Q

更新日期：2017-10-01 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 insertion of exogenous genetic cargo into insects using transposable elements is a powerful research tool with potential applications in meeting food security and public health challenges facing humanity. piggyBac is the transposable element most commonly utilized for insect germline transformation. The described ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gregory M,Alphey L,Morrison NI,Shimeld SM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costelytra zealandica larvae are pests of New Zealand pastures causing damage by feeding on the roots of grasses and clovers. The major larval protein digestive enzymes are serine proteases (SPs), which are targets for disruption in pest control. An expressed sequence tag (EST) library from healthy, third instar larva...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Marshall SD,Gatehouse LN,Becher SA,Christeller JT,Gatehouse HS,Hurst MR,Boucias DG,Jackson TA

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：:Wolbachia is an intracellular bacterium that has aroused intense interest because of its ability to alter the biology of its host in diverse ways. In the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, Wolbachia can induce complex cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) phenotypes and fitness changes, although little is known ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang YK,Ding XL,Rong X,Hong XY

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:The products of the maternal-effect genes, nanos (nos) and oskar (osk), are important for the development of germ cells in insects. Furthermore, these genes have been proposed as candidates for donating functional DNA regulatory sequences for use in gene drive systems to control transmission of mosquito-borne pathogen...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Juhn J,Marinotti O,Calvo E,James AA

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：:RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a promising method for validating gene function; however, its utility in nonmodel insects has proven problematic, with delivery methods being one of the main obstacles. This study investigates a novel method of RNAi delivery in aphids, the aerosolization of short interfering RNA ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thairu MW,Skidmore IH,Bansal R,Nováková E,Hansen TE,Li-Byarlay H,Wickline SA,Hansen AK

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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：:In the ant Camponotus festinatus, two different hexamerins accumulate stage-specifically during the late larval period and at various times in adults. These hexamerins serve as storage proteins and play important roles in brood nourishment and colony founding. We report an analysis of the cDNA sequence of C. festinatu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Martínez T,Burmester T,Veenstra JA,Wheeler D

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Haemolymph polypeptides from Plasmodium-refractory and -susceptible mosquitoes were compared by one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The refractory strain of Anopheles gambiae kills malaria parasites by a humoral melanization mechanism whereas the parasites develop normally in susceptible mosquitoes. The two ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chun J,McMaster J,Han Y,Schwartz A,Paskewitz SM

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:PCR primers designed from the alpha-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster have been used to isolate fragments from eight esterase genes in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that three are homologues of the alpha E7, alpha E8 and alpha E9 genes of the alpha-esteras...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Newcomb RD,East PD,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) refers to the process of post-transcriptional silencing of cellular mRNA by the application of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNAi strategies have been widely employed to regulate gene expression in plants and animals including insects. With the availability of the full genome sequences of major ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Balakrishna Pillai A,Nagarajan U,Mitra A,Krishnan U,Rajendran S,Hoti SL,Mishra RK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear ribosomal ITS2 and mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase DNA sequences were analysed from the Byturidae (Coleoptera), which includes the raspberry beetles. The secondary structure of ITS2 was plotted and interspecific changes analysed. Evidence for selection on simple sequence repeats within the ITS2 was found. Phy...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Malloch G,Fenton B,Goodrich MA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Three genes encoding clan MB metalloproteinases (EpMP1-3) were identified from venom glands of the ectoparasitic wasp Eulophus pennicornis. The derived amino acid sequences predict mature proteins of approximately 46 kDa, with a novel two-domain structure comprising a C-terminal reprolysin domain, and an N-terminal do...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Price DR,Bell HA,Hinchliffe G,Fitches E,Weaver R,Gatehouse JA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

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