A Drosophila melanogaster hobo-white(+) vector mediates low frequency gene transfer in D. virilis with full interspecific white(+) complementation.

abstract：:Sensory neurone membrane proteins (SNMPs) function as essential cofactors for insect sex pheromone detection. In this study, we report two SNMPs in Ectropis obliqua Prout, a serious geometrid pest that produces typical Type-II sex pheromones. Sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses showed that EoblSNMP1 and Eobl...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sun L,Wang Q,Zhang Y,Yan Y,Guo H,Xiao Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Haemocyanins constitute a group of copper-containing respiratory proteins, and hexamerins were derived from hexapod haemocyanin but lost the ability to transport oxygen and serve as storage proteins. Although hexamerins have been reported in most insect species, none of them has been identified in Collembola, one of t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Liang Y,Xie W,Luan YX

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some refractory anopheline mosquitoes are capable of killing Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, by melanotic encapsulation of invading ookinetes. Phenoloxidase (PO) appears to be involved in the formation of melanin and toxic metabolites in the surrounding capsule. A cDNA encoding Anopheles stephensi propheno...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Cui L,Luckhart S,Rosenberg R

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Two piggyBac-like elements (PLEs) were identified in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, and were designated as HaPLE1 and HaPLE2. HaPLE1 is flanked by 16 bp inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) and the duplicated TTAA tetranucleotide, and contains an open reading frame (ORF) of 1794 bp with the presumed DDD domain...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sun ZC,Wu M,Miller TA,Han ZJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic diversity is frequently generated by differences in gene expression. In this study, we addressed the relationship between homology in gene expression and phenotype among four species of eusocial wasps. Specifically, we investigated the evolution of caste-specific and sex-specific gene expression patterns as...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hunt BG,Goodisman MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:A new piggyBac-related transposable element (TE) was found in the genome of a mutant Anticarsia gemmatalis multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus interrupting an inhibitor of apoptosis gene. This mutant virus induces apoptosis upon infection of an Anticarsia gemmatalis cell line, but not in a Trichoplusia ni cell line. The seq...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Carpes MP,Nunes JF,Sampaio TL,Castro ME,Zanotto PM,Ribeiro BM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has led to the idea that derived traits can arise through the evolution of novel roles for conserved genes. We explored whether neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like signalling, a conserved pathway that regulates food-related behaviour, is involved in a derived, nutritionally-related trait, the division of labou...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ament SA,Velarde RA,Kolodkin MH,Moyse D,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-dependent division of labour in honeybees was shown to be connected to sensory response thresholds. Foragers show a higher gustatory responsiveness than nurse bees. It is generally assumed that nutrition-related signalling pathways underlie this behavioural plasticity. Here, one important candidate gene is the for...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thamm M,Sturm K,Schlossmann J,Scheiner R

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 arthropod Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam) mediates pathogen-specific recognition via an extensive protein isoform repertoire produced by alternative splicing. To date, most studies have focused on the subsequent pathogen-specific immune response, and few have investigated the entry into cells of virus...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang F,Li Q,Chen X,Huo Y,Guo H,Song Z,Cui F,Zhang L,Fang R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autogeny, the ability of a mosquito to mature an initial batch of eggs without blood feeding, is an alternative reproductive strategy with important implications for vector-borne disease transmission. Regulation of the major yolk protein (vitellogenin; Vg) genes during bloodmeal-induced oogenesis is well studied, but ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Provost-Javier KN,Chen S,Rasgon JL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The full-length Hsp90 cDNA in Delia antiqua was cloned and sequenced. The deduced polypeptide comprised 717 amino acid residues, with a molecular mass of 82 140 Da. Summer- and winter-diapauses both elevated HSP90 transcript levels in D. antiqua pupae. Levels gradually increased with time in summer diapausing pupae wh...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Chen B,Kayukawa T,Monteiro A,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse chemical ecology based on insect functional odorant binding proteins has been extensively studied to screen behaviourally active compounds, whereas chemosensory proteins (CSPs), which are reportedly involved in olfactory chemical reception and could serve as molecular targets remain unclear. In the present stu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Duan SG,Li DZ,Wang MQ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline transformation using a piggyBac-derived vector is feasible in the sawfly, Athalia rosae. A previously generated transgenic line carrying green fluorescence protein (GFP) genes as reporters was successfully maintained and preserved without consecutive rearing. Sperm taken from males that were frozen directly i...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hatakeyama M,Sumitani M

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Alphavirus transducing systems (ATSs) are alphavirus-based tools for expressing genes in insects. Here we describe an ATS (5'dsMRE16ic) based entirely on Sindbis MRE16 virus. GFP expression was used to characterize alimentary tract infections and dissemination in three Culicine and two Lepidopteran species. Following ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Foy BD,Myles KM,Pierro DJ,Sanchez-Vargas I,Uhlírová M,Jindra M,Beaty BJ,Olson KE

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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：:Although the Hymenoptera represent a remarkably diverse and socioeconomically important group that is of considerable interest in genome biology, they remain understudied in terms of genome size. This study reports new genome size estimates for 89 species of ants, bees and wasps, representing 17 families and four supe...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ardila-Garcia AM,Umphrey GJ,Gregory TR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks continue to be a threat to animal and human health, and new and novel control strategies are needed for ticks and tick-borne pathogens. The characterization of the tick-pathogen interface and the tick immune response to microbial infections is fundamental toward the formulation of new control strategies for tick...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Jaworski DC,Zou Z,Bowen CJ,Wasala NB,Madden R,Wang Y,Kocan KM,Jiang H,Dillwith JW

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:The terpenoid backbone biosynthesis pathway is responsible for the synthesis of different backbones for terpenoids; (E)-β-farnesene (EβF), a sesquiterpene, is the major component of aphid alarm pheromone. Our previous studies eliminated the possibility of host plants and endosymbionts as the sources of EβF, and we thu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Sun ZJ,Li ZX

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Insects and other arthropods have an effective innate immune system that can clear infections with bacteria and other microorganisms. Despite this ability, one group of bacteria, the spiroplasmas, survive unharmed within the haemolymph of a wide range of arthropod hosts. We investigated the interaction between one mem...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Hurst GD,Anbutsu H,Kutsukake M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450s are a superfamily of haemoproteins, important in the metabolism of endogenous compounds and xenobiotics. As a first step to elucidating the role of this family in insecticide resistance in the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, we have cloned and mapped multiple P450 genes. Sixteen cDNAs encoding fu...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Ranson H,Nikou D,Hutchinson M,Wang X,Roth CW,Hemingway J,Collins FH

更新日期：2002-10-01 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 sulfakinins are multifunctional insect neuropeptides displaying sequence similarities with the gastrin/ cholecystokinin (CCK) peptide family. In vertebrates, the peptides gastrin and CCK are involved in the regulation of digestion and food-intake. In this study sulfakinin cDNA was cloned and sequenced from the Med...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Meyering-Vos M,Müller A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00