A glutathione S-transferase gene of the vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae.

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that Amblyomma americanum tick serine protease inhibitor 6 (AamS6) was secreted into the host during tick feeding and that both its mRNA and protein were ubiquitously and highly expressed during the first 3 days of tick feeding. This study demonstrates that AamS6 is a cross-class inhibitor o...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mulenga A,Kim T,Ibelli AM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lucilia sericata maggots are used world-wide in biosurgery for the medical treatment of nonhealing wounds because they ingest necrotic tissues and significantly promote healing. To gain further insight into interdependencies between ecological adaptation and molecular evolution of innate immunity in Diptera, we used t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Altincicek B,Vilcinskas A

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:In a recent study Drosophila larvae were injected with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) suspended in 1% ethanol and differentially induced protein fractions were identified. The levels of several proteins, including alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), increased in LPS-treated flies and were labelled as immune response prot...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Schlenke TA,McKean KA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitellogenins, cyclorraphan yolk proteins and lepidopteran minor yolk proteins are three classes of female-specific proteins that serve as an embryonic nutritional store. Similarity to vertebrate lipid-binding proteins was established for vitellogenins and yolk proteins, vitellogenins being related to apolipoprotein B...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hens K,Lemey P,Macours N,Francis C,Huybrechts R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATBP [(A+T)-stretch binding protein] activates the Sarcophaga defense protein genes in an (A+T)-stretch dependent manner as shown previously using a luciferase reporter assay [Aozasa et al. (2001) Eur J Biochem, 268, 2506-2511]. We identified the Drosophila homologue of ATBP. Drosophila ATBP has 388 amino acid residue...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Aozasa N,Kubo T,Sekimizu K,Natori S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anabrus simplex is a swarming plague orthopteran found in western North America. The genome is 15 766 bp in length and genome organization follows the ancestral insect gene arrangement. atp6 lacked any readily identifiable stop codon. Examination of mRNA secondary structure for this gene suggested a stem/loop-medi...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Fenn JD,Cameron SL,Whiting MF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culicoides spp. are vectors of several infectious diseases of veterinary importance and a major cause of allergy in horses and other livestock. Their saliva contains a number of proteins which enable blood feeding, enhance disease transmission and act as allergens. We report the construction of a novel cDNA library fr...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Russell CL,Heesom KJ,Arthur CJ,Helps CR,Mellor PS,Day MJ,Torsteinsdottir S,Björnsdóttir TS,Wilson AD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cytochrome P450 genes, CYP6B8, CYP6B9, CYP6B27 and CYP6B28, exist in the Helicoverpa zea genome as two pairs of paralogs that evolved from gene duplication and 5'-polar gene conversion events. RT-PCR gel blot analyses have shown that all of these genes are expressed constitutively in midguts of all larval instars...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Li X,Berenbaum MR,Schuler MA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about when, how or even if the wing development gene network elucidated in Drosophila is deployed in direct-developing insects. Here we identify the wing development genes (as determined in Drosophila) of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), which produces winged or unwinged adults in response to envir...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Brisson JA,Ishikawa A,Miura T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A homologue of the Drosophila melanogaster eye-colour gene, scarlet (st), has been isolated from the genome of the tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni. The comparison of the B. tryoni and D. melanogaster scarlet gene shows 71.2% and 79.3% sequence identity at the DNA and the derived amino acid level, respectively. ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhao JT,Bennett CL,Stewart GJ,Frommer M,Raphael KA

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:We describe here the first systematic work to discover insect genes involved in food breakdown using a cDNA library enriched for gut-expressed transcripts from Callosobruchus maculatus. A total of 1056 clones were screened for cDNA insert-containing plasmids, and 503 nonredundant open reading frames were discovered. T...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Pedra JH,Brandt A,Westerman R,Lobo N,Li HM,Romero-Severson J,Murdock LL,Pittendrigh BR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila homeodomain-interacting protein kinase (Hipk) is a versatile regulator involved in a variety of pathways, such as Notch and Wingless signalling, thereby acting in processes including the promotion of eye development or control of cell numbers in the nervous system. In vertebrates, extensive studies have...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Dewald DN,Steinmetz EL,Walldorf U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loxosceles intermedia venom comprises a complex mixture of proteins, glycoproteins and low molecular mass peptides that act synergistically to immobilize envenomed prey. Analysis of a venom-gland transcriptome from L. intermedia revealed that knottins, also known as inhibitor cystine knot peptides, are the most abunda...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Matsubara FH,Meissner GO,Herzig V,Justa HC,Dias BC,Trevisan-Silva D,Gremski LH,Gremski W,Senff-Ribeiro A,Chaim OM,King GF,Veiga SS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To begin to explore the molecular dynamics of rickettsial tick interaction, subtractive hybridization was used to screen mRNAs in Rickettsia montanensis-infected and uninfected Dermacentor variabilis. We isolated 30 cDNA fragments, 22 of which were up-regulated and eight were down-regulated in response to rickettsial ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mulenga A,Macaluso KR,Simser JA,Azad AF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was performed to infer the magnitude and pattern of genetic differentiation among boll weevil populations from eighteen locations across eight US states and north-east Mexico. Sixty-seven reproducible bands from six random primers were analysed for genetic va...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kim KS,Sappington TW

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Olfaction plays an important role in insects in recognizing volatile compounds, which are used to find food and mates, as well as avoid danger, predators and pathogens. The key players in the detection of volatile compounds are olfactory receptor (OR) proteins, which are located within the dendritic membrane of sensor...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Liu C,Liu Y,Guo M,Cao D,Dong S,Wang G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulating the expression of genes in species that are not currently used as genetic models will provide comparative insights into the evolution of gene functions. However the experimental tools in doing so are limited in species that have not served as models for genetic studies. We have examined the effects of dou...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Beye M,Härtel S,Hagen A,Hasselmann M,Omholt SW

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) has developed into an important ethological model organism for social behaviour and behavioural plasticity. Bees perform a complex age-dependent division of labour with the most pronounced behavioural differences occurring between in-hive bees and foragers. Whereas nurse bees, for exa...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Reim T,Scheiner R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNA regulatory pathways are used to control the activity of transposons, regulate gene expression and resist infecting viruses. We examined the biogenesis of mRNA-derived endogenous short-interfering RNAs (endo-siRNAs) in the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti. Under standard conditions, mRNA-derived endo-siR...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Adelman ZN,Anderson MA,Liu M,Zhang L,Myles KM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of Aedes aegypti was recently reported. A significant amount of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) were sequenced to aid in the gene prediction process. In the present work we describe an integrated analysis of the genomic and EST data, focusing on genes with preferential expression in larvae (LG), adu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Venancio TM,Cristofoletti PT,Ferreira C,Verjovski-Almeida S,Terra WR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length cDNA and genomic sequences for two genes (designated mdesprot-I and mdesprot-II) encoding digestive serine proteases in Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor, have been cloned and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequences revealed similarity with trypsin-like digestive serine proteases from other Diptera...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Mittapalli O,Stuart JJ,Shukle RH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine protease gene fragments approximately 480 nucleotides in length were amplified from Ctenocephalides felis larval and adult cDNA libraries using degenerate oligonucleotide PCR primers. Partial clones of thirty-eight distinct serine protease encoding sequences were isolated, and nineteen different full-length cDN...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Gaines PJ,Sampson CM,Rushlow KE,Stiegler GL

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) photolyases repair ultraviolet (UV)-induced DNA damage using blue light. To get insight in the origin of baculovirus CPD photolyase (phr) genes, homologues in the lepidopteran insects Chrysodeixis chalcites, Spodoptera exigua and Trichoplusia ni were identified and characterized. Lep...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Biernat MA,Ros VI,Vlak JM,van Oers MM

更新日期：2011-08-01 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 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

abstract：:E26 transformation-specific (Ets) family transcription factors are known to play roles in various biological phenomena, including immunity, in vertebrates. However, the mechanisms by which Ets proteins contribute to immunity in invertebrates remain poorly understood. In this study, we identified a cDNA encoding BmEts2...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Tanaka H,Sagisaka A,Suzuki N,Yamakawa M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00