Seasonal changes in glycerol content and enzyme activities in overwintering larvae of the Shonai ecotype of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker.

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：:The toxic manipulator of oogenesis (TomO) protein has been identified in the wMel strain of Wolbachia that symbioses with the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, as a protein that affects host reproduction. TomO protects germ stem cells (GSCs) from degeneration, which otherwise occurs in ovaries of host females that ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ote M,Yamamoto D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA encoding neuroparsin A, a polytropic neurohormone of the locust, Locusta migratoria, was inserted into the genome of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus such that transcription was under control of the p10 promoter. A polypeptide having the same charge and the same apparent molecular weight as t...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Girardie J,Chaabihi H,Fournier B,Lagueux M,Girardie A

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Adult functions of juvenile hormone (JH) have been described for Drosophila melanogaster and other dipteran insects, but preadult function for this hormone remains largely unknown in this order of insects. We have identified a mutation of Drosophila, Methoprene-tolerant (Met), which appears to alter JH reception durin...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Turner C,Wilson TG

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of the Asteraceae and Hypericaceae possess secondary compounds that induce photooxidation in insect herbivores that consume them. One of the well-established modes of action of these substances is peroxidation of membrane lipids. Some herbivores counteract these defences by avoidance of light and tissues rich i...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aucoin R,Guillet G,Murray C,Philogène BJR,Arnason JT

更新日期：1995-01-01 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 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：:The oral toxicity of the C-type allatostatin, Manduca sexta allatostatin (Manse-AS) and the analogue δR³δR⁵Manse-AS, where R residues were replaced by their D-isomers, were tested against the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae by incorporation into an artificial diet. Both peptides had significant dose-dependent effect...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Matthews HJ,Down RE,Audsley N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein L17 (RPL17) is a core protein of the large (60S) ribosomal subunit and plays an important role in protein synthesis. In this report, a RPL17 gene was isolated from Apis cerana cerana, designated as AccRPL17. Alignment analysis showed that AccRPL17 exhibits high homology to other known RPL17s. Moreove...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Meng F,Zhang L,Kang M,Guo X,Xu B

更新日期：2010-10-01 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 effects of tebufenozide and methoxyfenozide on vitellogenin (Vg) synthesis/release in the fat body, translocation in hemolymph, uptake by the ovary, and the expression of the ecdysone receptor (EcR) and its heterodimer partner, ultraspiracle protein (USP) in fat body, were investigated in Cydia pomonella. The resu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sun X,Song Q,Barrett B

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bursicon is a neuropeptide that regulates cuticle sclerotization (hardening and tanning) via a G protein-coupled receptor. It consists of two subunits, an alpha and a beta. In the present study, we investigated the transcriptional expression and in situ localization of bursicon alpha and beta in the central nerve syst...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wang S,An S,Song Q

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) that are bound to the egg surface of a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens are void of nucleic acid and unable to infect host tissue but instead provide a passive protection against the host's immune recognition. To investigate evolutionary and functional properties of Venturia particles, we ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Theopold U,Krause E,Schmidt O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine, 5-6-dihydroxyindole, and N-acetylarterenone were detected by electrochemical methods in the hemolymph of immune reactive larvae of Drosophila melanogaster following parasitization by the wasp Leptopilina boulardi. Determinations of the catechols were made after separation by reverse phase, ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Nappi AJ,Vass E,Carton Y,Frey F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro bioassay suitable for routine use to investigate hypertrehalosemic hormone (HTH)-dependent trehalose biosynthesis was developed for the cockroach fat body. Blaberus discoidalis fat bodies were isolated and divided so that eight matched pieces from a single tissue could be compared for multiple control and ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Keeley LL,Sowa SM,Hesson AS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid transfer particle (LTP) is present in hemolymph of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta. Biosynthesis of LTP, occurrence in hemolymph, and the role of LTP-apoproteins in the lipid transfer reaction were investigated using antibodies specific for LTP or for each of the apoproteins. In vitro protein synthesis follow...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Van Heusden MC,Yepiz-Plascencia GM,Walker AM,Law JH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-proliferation in Drosophila Kc167 cells was inhibited by 50% when cell cultures contained 1.7 x 10(-7) M azadirachtin for 48 h (a tertranortriterpenoid from the neem tree Azadirachta indica). Drosophila Kc167 cells exhibited direct nuclear damage within 6-h exposure to azadirachtin (5 x 10(-7) M and above) or wit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Robertson SL,Ni W,Dhadialla TS,Nisbet AJ,McCusker C,Ley SV,Mordue W,Mordue 'Luntz' AJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Storage protein-1 (HcSP-1) is a major storage protein found in the hemolymph and fat body of Hyphantria cunea. HcSP-1 has a high methionine (6.0%) and low aromatic amino acid content (8.5%) (Cheon et al., 1998). In this study, the accumulation and expression of HcSP-1 in ovary was investigated using biochemical and im...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Cheon HM,Kim HJ,Chung DH,Kim MO,Park JS,Yun CY,Seo SJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect peptide hormone trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF), a decapeptide that is synthesized by the mosquito ovary and controls the translation of the gut's trypsin mRNA was cloned and expressed in the marine alga Chlorella desiccata. To express Aedes aegypti TMOF gene (tmfA) in C. desiccata cells, two plas...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Borovsky D,Sterner A,Powell CA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioinsecticide Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) is increasingly used worldwide for mosquito control. Although no established resistance to Bti has been described in the field so far, a resistant Aedes aegypti strain (LiTOX strain) was selected in the laboratory using field-collected leaf litter contai...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tetreau G,Stalinski R,David JP,Després L

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) functions in lipid transport and immune activation in insects. We cloned a cDNA encoding putative apoLp-III from larvae of Thitarodes pui, a host species of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, with great economic importance in the Tibetan Plateau. Excluding a putative signal peptide of the first 20 ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sun Z,Yu J,Wu W,Zhang G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepidopteran larvae show a cellular response to invading foreign substances that are larger than hemocytes, for example, parasitoid eggs or larvae. This response is called hemocyte encapsulation and is often accompanied by phenoloxidase (PO)-catalyzed melanization. In the present study, we artificially transplanted en...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kato Y,Yoshida T,Miura K,Tanaka T,Nakamatsu Y,Ochiai M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline-inducible gene expression (Tet-on) system is a particularly powerful tool for transgenic research and has become one of the first choices for the control of transgene expression in a mammal and a fly. Previously, we have generated the modified reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivators and tetO promo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tatsuke T,Lee JM,Kusakabe T,Iiyama K,Sezutsu H,Uchino K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant produced insect molting hormones, termed phytoecdysteroids (PEs), are thought to function as plant defenses against insects by acting as either feeding deterrents or through developmental disruption. In spinach (Spinacia oleracea), 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) concentrations in the roots rapidly increase following r...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Schmelz EA,Grebenok RJ,Ohnmeiss TE,Bowers WS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Destruxins have been implicated in the infection process by entomopathogenic fungi and have been also found to be highly toxic when applied topically or ingested by different insect species. To gain insight into the mechanism of action of this toxin on insect internal organs, we have evaluated the effects of destruxin...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ruiz-Sanchez E,O'Donnell MJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 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