Local expression and distribution of a storage protein in the ovary of Hyphantria cunea.

abstract：:Hydrocarbon and wax ester components of cuticular lipids of the braconid parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor Say reared at 25 degrees C on larvae of a pyralid moth have been identified by GC-MS and analyzed with respect to adult age, mating status, and diet. The hydrocarbons range in carbon number from C(21) to C(45) and c...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Howard RW,Baker JE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine differential gene expression profiles in the venom gland and sac (gland/sac) of a solitary hunting wasp species, Orancistrocerus drewseni Saussure (1857), a subtractive cDNA library was constructed by suppression subtractive hybridization. A total of 498 expressed sequence tags (EST) were clustered and as...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Baek JH,Woo TH,Kim CB,Park JH,Kim H,Lee S,Lee SH

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Two blue-pigment binding proteins, BP1 and BP2, are present in larval and pupal haemolymph of cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, and fluctuate in expression during development. Both BP1 and BP2 are found in pupal haemolymph in varying proportions as well as in adult haemolymph, while only small amounts of BP2 are ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Choi CW,Nam KP,Seo DH,Choi JW,Lee CS,Kim HR,Yun CY

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of potassium ferrocyanide (PFC) and protective effects of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) under PFC treatment were tested on the Drosophila melanogaster model system. Fly larvae were raised on food supplemented with PFC at concentrations of 1.0 mM and mixtures with DNP in concentrations of 0.50 and 1.25 mM, eithe...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lozinsky OV,Lushchak OV,Lushchak VI

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy (autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process involved in physiological and developmental processes including cell survival, death, and innate immunity. Homologues of most of 36 originally discovered autophagy-related (ATG) genes in yeast have been characterized in higher eukaryotes inclu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tindwa H,Jo YH,Patnaik BB,Noh MY,Kim DH,Kim I,Han YS,Lee YS,Lee BL,Kim NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone titer in moths is a product of three processes occurring in or at the surface of the pheromone gland: biosynthesis, release, and intraglandular degradation, of pheromone. Changes in titers of sex pheromone, the fatty acyl pheromone analog (FAPA), and tetradecanoate, a pheromone biosynthetic intermediate, wer...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Foster SP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PGs) are oxygenated metabolites of arachidonic acid and two other C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Among other actions in invertebrates, PGs act in ovarian development, renal functions, immunity, hemocyte migration, and gene/protein expression. Reversible phosphorylation is a major mechanism of regulat...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Stanley D,Goodman CL,Ringbauer JA,Song Q

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trypsin inhibitor purified from the seeds of the Manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce (PDTI), was studied for its effects on growth parameters and developmental stages of Helicoverpa armigera. PDTI exhibited inhibitory activity against bovine trypsin (∼86%; ∼1.33 ug/ml IC50). The inhibitory activity of PDTI was una...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Pandey PK,Singh D,Jamal F

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 Arctic springtail, Megaphorura arctica, survives sub-zero temperatures in a dehydrated state via trehalose-dependent cryoprotective dehydration. Regulation of trehalose biosynthesis is complex; based in part on studies in yeast and fungi, its connection with oxidative stress caused by exposure of cells to oxidants...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Grubor-Lajšić G,Petri ET,Kojić D,Purać J,Popović ZD,Worland RM,Clark MS,Mojović M,Blagojević DP

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:We exposed midgut cells from primary cultures of Heliothis virescens larvae to cell-free previously used medium, the Vaughn X and HyQ SFtrade mark media used for serum-free culture of insect cell lines which do not support H. virescens midgut cells, and to toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. A statistically significant...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Loeb MJ,Hakim RS,Martin P,Narang N,Goto S,Takeda M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male German cockroaches possess secretory glands that secrete fluid into a pair of transverse depressions on the seventh and eighth abdominal tergites. We investigated the effects of altered juvenoid titer during the first part of the last instar on tergal gland secretory tissue development and the production of terga...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Saltzmann KA,Saltzmann KD,Neal JJ,Scharf ME,Bennett GW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline phosphatase activity was histochemically localized in adult whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci B biotype, syn. B. argentifolii) with a chromogenic substrate (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylphosphate) and a fluorogenic substrate (ELF-97). The greatest amount of staining was in the basal regions of adult salivary glands wit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Funk CJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A P-element mobility excision assay was used to determine if non-drosophilid insects could support P gene vector function. Present studies included the testing of Muscids, Sphaerocerids, and Phorids, none of which were able to support P mobility. A new excision indicator plasmid was developed allowing the detection an...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Handler AM,Gomez SP,O'Brochta DA

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The yolk platelets from Rhodnius prolixus, a blood-sucking bug, are composed mostly of vitellin and here are shown to contain at least two hydrolytic enzymes, a phosphatase and a cathepsin D-like proteinase. Both the proteinase and the phosphatase have an acid pH optimum. No hydrolytic activity was observed under alka...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Nussenzveig RH,Oliveira PL,Masuda H

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Genetic engineering of plants using transgenic technology is targeted to enhance agronomic performance or improved quality traits in a wide variety of plant species, and has become a fundamental tool for basic research in plant biotechnology. Constitutive promoters are presently the primary means used to express trans...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tavva VS,Palli SR,Dinkins RD,Collins GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prothoracic glands (PGs) taken from the last instar of the common armyworm, Pseudaletia separata, were cultured in various media for the purpose of finding a suitable medium for relatively long-term culture of PGs. Among the tested culture media, MGM-450 medium without serum was the best to maintain PG cells viabl...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Komiya K,Agui N,Mitsuhashi J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At 22°C and under a long-day photoperiod of L:D 16:8, all the last fifth instar Loxostege sticticalis larvae undergo prepupal stage and pupate without diapause. Under a short-day photoperiod of L:D 12:12, in contrast, they all enter diapause with approximately 36 days diapause maintenance and then terminate diapause s...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Jiang X,Huang S,Luo L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactivity against peptides of the allatostatin family having a typical YXFGL-NH2 C-terminus has been localized in different areas of the central nervous system, stomatogastric nervous system and gut of the cockroach Blattella germanica. In the protocerebrum, the most characteristic immunoreactive perikarya are ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Maestro JL,Bellés X,Piulachs MD,Thorpe A,Duve H

更新日期：1998-01-01 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

abstract：:The glucosidase inhibitor 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (DIA) was used to investigate the action of hypertrehalosemic hormone (HTH) on carbohydrate, neutral lipid, and phospholipid metabolism in the hemolymph and fat body of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. DIA blocked the hypertrehalosemic and hyperglycemic...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Oguri E,Steele JE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding sites for vitellogenin were solubilized and analyzed either with a filter assay or with ligand blotting. We tested sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), Chaps, octyl-beta-D-glucoside, and sodium deoxycholate and found SDS and sodium deoxycholate to be most effective in solubilizing both high and low molecular weight bi...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Indrasith LS,Kindle H,Lanzrein B

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THQ (1-aroyl-4-(arylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline) compounds were identified by FMC Corporation in cell-based assays that used ecdysone receptors from Drosophila melanogaster, Heliothis virescens, or Plodia interpunctata. THQ compounds showed weak insecticidal activity against H. virescens and, therefore, were no...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Palli SR,Tice CM,Margam VM,Clark AM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green rice leafhopper, Nephotettix cincticeps, is a major rice pest in Southeast Asia and Southern China. Novel control strategies must be explored to control the rice pest. Behavior or fitness regulation of insect by modulating the Troponin C (TnC) may be a novel strategy in the comprehensive management of the in...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lan H,Hong X,Huang R,Lin X,Li Q,Li K,Zhou T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V-ATPases are ubiquitous proton pumps found in eukaryotes, and are important in regulating the pH of cell compartments and in creating membrane potentials. The V-ATPase creates a proton gradient that is used as an energy source for the transport of other ions. The 16-kDa proteolipid is the proton-translocating subunit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Holmes SP,Frazier SK,Pietrantonio PV

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect eye coloration arises from the accumulation of various pigments. A number of genes that function in the biosynthesis (vermilion, cinnabar, and cardinal) and importation (karmoisin, white, scarlet, and brown) of these pigments, and their precursors, have been identified in diverse species and used as markers for...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Brent CS,Hull JJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00