An estimate of the number of serine protease genes expressed in sheep blowfly larvae (Lucilia cuprina).

abstract：:The ribosomal DNA cistron from the large raspberry aphid, Amphorophora idaei (Hemiptera: Aphididae), has been mapped by restriction analysis. The results showed that the map of A. idaei was similar to those of the previously characterized aphids Schizaphis graminum and Acyrthosiphon pisum. An extra Bgl II site was fou...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Fenton B,Birch AN,Malloch G,Woodford JA,Gonzalez C

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Acetylation is an important, reversible posttranslational modification to a protein. In a previous study, we found that there were a large number of acetylated sites in various nutrient storage proteins of the silkworm haemolymph. In this study, we confirmed that acetylation can affect the stability of nutrient storag...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yang F,Zhu B,Liu J,Liu Y,Jiang C,Sheng Q,Qiu J,Nie Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：:Speckled (Spc), an X-ray-induced lethal mutant of Bombyx mori, exhibits a mosaic dark-brown-spotted larval epidermis in both sexes and egg-laying problems only in females. Here, we report the morphological characterization and molecular mapping of the Spc mutant. Morphological investigations revealed that the epiderma...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tan D,Tong XL,Hu H,Wu SY,Li CL,Xiong G,Xiang ZH,Dai FY,Lu C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maxadilan is an approximately 7kDa peptide that occurs in the saliva of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis. This peptide is a potent vasodilator and may also have immunomodulatory effects related to the pathogenesis of leishmanial infections. Variation in the primary DNA and inferred amino acid sequence of maxadilan i...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Lanzaro GC,Lopes AH,Ribeiro JM,Shoemaker CB,Warburg A,Soares M,Titus RG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepidoptera is one of the most widespread insect orders and includes several agriculturally important insect species. Ecological success of the lepidopteran insects partly depends on their adaptive chemoreception tactics, which play an important role in the selection of hosts, egg-laying sites and mates. Members of th...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Agnihotri AR,Roy AA,Joshi RS

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：:The hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone is fundamental for regulating moulting and metamorphosis in immature insects, and it plays a role in physiological regulation in adult insects. This hormone acts by binding and activating a receptor, the ecdysone receptor, which is part of the nuclear receptor gene superfamily. Here, we ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Nascimento PVP,Almeida-Oliveira F,Macedo-Silva A,Ausina P,Motinha C,Sola-Penna M,Majerowicz D

更新日期：2021-01-17 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：:Antheraea assamensis is reared on various species of the Lauraceae family from north-east India for its distinctive cocoon silk. We demonstrate differential expression of digestive trypsin and chymotrypsins in larvae feeding on a primary host, Persea bombycina Kosterm., in comparison to larvae feeding on Litsea monope...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Saikia M,Singh YT,Bhattacharya A,Mazumdar-Leighton S

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:In Culex pipiens mosquitoes, A2 esterase alleles are co-amplified with B2 esterase alleles in response to selection with organophosphate insecticides. In this study the amplified A2 and B2 sequences were compared between twelve strains from four continents by restriction mapping. The restriction maps were almost ident...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Callaghan A,Guillemaud T,Makate N,Raymond M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway is one of the four major signalling systems that respond to stress and inflammatory stimuli. A full-length cDNA corresponding to Aedes aegypti MAP kinase kinase 3 (AaMEK3) was cloned and sequenced. It is 1.7 kb and contains an open reading frame of 334 ami...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Huang SJ,Wu RC,Shaio MF,Wang PS,Cho WL

更新日期：2003-12-01 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

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：:The expression pattern of the 79B actin gene in Drosophila melanogaster has been inferred previously by means of a reporter gene in which 79B actin promoter sequences drive the lacZ coding sequences. Although the 79B actin gene is expressed primarily in muscles of the thorax and first abdominal segment of the adults o...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ohshima S,Villarimo C,Gailey DA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two different groups of piggyBac-like elements (PLE) in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens, and named them HvPLE1 and HvPLE2. An intact copy of HvPLE1 revealed the characteristics of PLE: inverted terminal repeats, inverted subterminal repeats, and an open reading frame encoding transposase, wherea...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wang J,Ren X,Miller TA,Park Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Insect chitin synthase is an essential enzyme involved in chitin biosynthesis in insects. Chitin synthase A (CHSA) is expressed in different insect tissues during different developmental stages. CHSA contains alternative-splicing exons that allow tissue- and development-specific chitin synthesis. Here, we report that ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Qu M,Yang Q

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Lipids of the insect cuticle have important roles in resistance against the arid environment and invasion of foreign substances. Fatty acid synthase (FAS) is an important enzyme of the insect lipid synthesis pathway. In the present study, we identified three FAS genes from transcriptome data of the migratory locust, L...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Yang Y,Zhao X,Niu N,Zhao Y,Liu W,Moussian B,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hemimetabolous insects produce their own cellulase enzymes from the glycoside hydrolase family 9, first observed in termites and cockroaches. Phasmatodea have multiple cellulases, some of which are multifunctional and can degrade xylan or xyloglucan. To discover when these abilities evolved, we identified cellula...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Shelomi M,Wipfler B,Zhou X,Pauchet Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are important chaperones, which are involved in various signal pathways and regulate lots of physiological processes. Early research suggested that some Hsps are involved in insect development. However, few studies have been carried out to explore the roles of Hsps, especially in larval-pupa...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gu J,Huang LX,Shen Y,Huang LH,Feng QL

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fat body of the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, a cycle of ribosome accumulation and degradation accompanies synthesis of the yolk protein precursor, vitellogenin. Here we compare the transcription and translation of ribosomal proteins rpS6, rpL8 and rpL34, relative to rRNA and vitellogenin genes in Aedes aegypti fat body...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Niu LL,Fallon AM

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：: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