Identification of vitellogenin in the ant, Camponotus festinatus: changes in hemolymph proteins and fat body development in workers.

abstract：:We have used a parasitoid wasp Drosophila melanogaster system to investigate the relationship between the humoral and cellular immune responses in insects. Expression of the gene encoding diptericin, an antibacterial peptide in various D. melanogaster strains parasitized by several species of parasitoid wasps, was stu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Benassi V,Coustau C,Carton Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:There is a basal level of enzyme activity for trypsin, aminopeptidase, amylase, and lipase in the gut of unfed larval (L6) Spodoptera frugiperda. Trypsin activity does not decrease with non-feeding, possibly because of the low protein levels in plants along with high amino acid requirements for growth and storage (for...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lwalaba D,Hoffmann KH,Woodring J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Habrobracon brevicornis venom to elevate the nutritional suitability of a host by affecting the host larvae fat body condition was studied. To understand whether H. brevicornis crude venom impacts the host biochemical profile, the concentrations of total lipids and main sugars in the host larvae lymph w...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kryukova NA,Mozhaytseva KA,Rotskaya UN,Glupov VV

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesoic acid O-methyl transferase (FAMeT) is the enzyme that catalyzes the formation of methyl farnesoate (MF) from farnesoic acid (FA) in the biosynthetic pathway of juvenile hormone (JH). This work reports the cloning, sequencing, and expression of FAMeT gene from the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris (MsFAMeT). ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vieira CU,Bonetti AM,Simões ZL,Maranhão AQ,Costa CS,Costa MC,Siquieroli AC,Nunes FM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect γ-aminobutyric acid receptors (GABARs) are important molecular targets of cyclodiene and phenylpyrazole insecticides. Previously GABARs encoding rdl (resistant to dieldrin) genes responsible for dieldrin and fipronil resistance were identified in various economically important insect pests. In this study, we cl...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wei Q,Wu SF,Niu CD,Yu HY,Dong YX,Gao CF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant system, which is composed of multiple gene families, plays a major role in reducing oxidative damage and xenobiotic detoxification in all living organisms. We identified 50 silkworm antioxidant genes from nine gene families based on the assembled genome sequence. A comparative analysis of the antioxidant g...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Shi GQ,Yu QY,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster glutathione S-transferase D3 (DmGSTD3) has a shorter amino acid sequence as compared to other GSTs known in the fruit flies. This is due to the 15 amino acid N-terminal truncation in which normally active amino acid residue is located. The work has made use of homology modeling to visualize the...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vignesvaran K,Alias Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:In previous investigations, we have determined that organophosphate resistance in the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is at least partially attributed to a group of non-specific carboxylesterases referred to as group II. Antiserum raised against a purified 66-kDa group II esterase is specific fo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhou X,Scharf ME,Meinke LJ,Chandler LD,Siegfried BD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular activities of K+, H+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and Cl-, measured with ion selective microelectrodes in the oocyte and the nurse cells in ovarian follicles of Hyalophora cecropia, indicated that a Ca2+ current is a key component of the electrical potential that is maintained across the intercellular bridges connecting...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Woodruff RI,Telfer WH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding two different epoxide hydrolases (nCfEH1 and nCfEH2) were cloned from a cDNA library prepared from the wandering larval stage of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. Predicted translations of the open reading frames indicated the clones encoded proteins of 464 (CfEH1) and 465 (CfEH2) amino acids. These ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Keiser KC,Brandt KS,Silver GM,Wisnewski N

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus, is a dangerous pest in rice fields. Although buprofezin has been used to control L. striatellus for more than a decade, the occurrence of buprofezin-resistant L. striatellus has been recently reported. To develop an alternative pest control strategy, comparative tra...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Fang Y,Park MG,Choi JY,Park DH,Wang M,Kim HJ,Kim WJ,Je YH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An active corpus allatum (CA) in the blood feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus, releases a substance that inhibits metamorphosis in larvae, and activates egg production in adults. In adults, transecting the nervus corporis cardiacum II's (NCCII), which are attached posteriorly to each protocerebral lobe, greatly increas...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chiang RG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterile insect technique (SIT) was developed to eradicate the new world screwworm from the southern United States and Mexico, and became a component of many area-wide integrated pest management programs, particularly useful in managing tephritid fruit flies. SIT is based on the idea of rearing and sterilizing male...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chang CL,Goodman CL,Ringbauer J,Geib SM,Stanley D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed the proteomic approach in combination with mass spectrometry to study the immune response of honey bee workers at different developmental stages. Analysis of the hemolymph proteins of noninfected, mock-infected and immune-challenged individuals by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed differences ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Randolt K,Gimple O,Geissendörfer J,Reinders J,Prusko C,Mueller MJ,Albert S,Tautz J,Beier H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the green-colored perivisceral fat body of newly ecdysed Manduca sexta pupae stimulate mitosis in midgut stem cells of Heliothis virescens cultured in vitro. Using a combination of cation- and anion-exchange chromatography, we have isolated a protein from these fat body extracts that accounts for the obser...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Blackburn MB,Loeb MJ,Clark E,Jaffe H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hawkmoth Manduca sexta high density lipophorin from adult insects (HDLp-A) delivers lipids to developing oocytes. During this lipid delivery HDLp-A is taken up by the oocyte and converted to a very high density lipophorin (VHDLp), which is stored in protein storage granules (yolk bodies). A membrane-free lysate...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Van Antwerpen R,Law JH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding heat shock transcription factor (HSF) was cloned and sequenced from cultured cells of the cabbage armyworm, Mamestra brassicae. The cDNA potentially encoded a 699-aa protein, with a calculated molecular weight of 77.8 kDa. Deduced amino acid identities to HSFs from Aedes aegypti and Drosophila melanoga...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sonoda S,Tsumuki H

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Superoxide anion (O(-) (2)) and nitric oxide (NO) generation in Dactylopius coccus hemolymph obtained by perfusion and activated with zymosan was studied. Activated hemolymph reduced 3-[4,5 dimethylthiazolil-2]-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide. This reduction was prevented by superoxide dismutase (SOD) indicating O(-)...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： García-Gil De Muñoz F,Lanz-Mendoza H,Hernández-Hernández FC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among insects, lifespans vary over a broad range, from the short-lived mayflies to the 17-year periodical cicadas. Generally, lifespans are determined by a phase in life, the reproductive lifespan, which varies among species. Numerous pathways, such as the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway, the targ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xiong S,Yu K,Ye X,Fang Q,Deng Y,Xiao S,Yang L,Wang B,Wang F,Yan Z,Wang F,Song Q,Stanley DW,Ye G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified P-glycoprotein ATPase from Helicoverpa armigera (Ha-Pgp), reconstituted in proteoliposomes composed of phospholipids and cholesterol, shows higher ATPase activity in the presence of cholesterol than in its absence. The Ha-Pgp ATPase activity was increased 30-40% with cholesterol. The KM for ATP was found to b...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aurade RM,Jayalakshmi SK,Udikeri SS,Sreeramulu K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect cellular immune responses include encapsulation, nodule formation, and phagocytosis. Hemichannels and gap junctions are involved in these cellular actions. Innexins (Inxs: analogous to the vertebrate connexins) form hemichannels and gap junctions, but the molecular mechanisms underlying their biology is still u...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Pang Z,Li M,Yu D,Yan Z,Liu X,Ji X,Yang Y,Hu J,Luo K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic amines are an important class of primary messengers in the central (CNS) and peripheral nervous systems and in peripheral organs. These substances regulate and modulate many physiological and behavioral processes. Various inactivation mechanisms for these substances exist to terminate biogenic amine-mediated ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Blenau W,Baumann A

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Two predatory fly species, Lispe consanguinea Loew, 1858 and L. tentaculata DeGeer, 1776, inhabit the supralittoral zone at the shore of a fresh-water reservoir. Both species look alike and possess similar "badges," reflective concave silvery scales on the face. Flies occupy different lek habitats. Males of the first ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Frantsevich L,Gorb S

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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

abstract：:The hemolymph of each noctuid species successfully parasitized by Chelonus near curvimaculatus possessed a parasitism-specific protein (PSP) previously identified in host T. ni (Insect Biochem. 19:445;21:845). Expression of PSP occurred in a stage-specific manner in the stadium during which the host undergoes precocio...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Soldevila AI,Jones D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00