Periodicity of sex pheromone biosynthesis, release and degradation in the lightbrown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker).

abstract：:The first day of adult life is the sensitive stage for shifting migrants into the resident morphs of the oriental armyworm (OAW), Mythimna separata (Walker). The juvenile hormone (JH) titer, expression of the allatotropin (AT) gene, and their relationship were investigated in adult female migrants starved in the sensi...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhang L,Luo L,Jiang X

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:This study reports the biochemical characterization and comparative analyses of highly active serine proteases in the larval and pupal developmental stages of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) using substrate-SDS-PAGE. Zymographic analysis of larval stadia detected proteolytic activity in 6-8 bands with apparent molecular mass...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Mesquita-Rodrigues C,Saboia-Vahia L,Cuervo P,Levy CM,Honorio NA,Domont GB,de Jesus JB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant protease inhibitors (PIs) are elements of a common plant defense mechanism induced in response to herbivores. The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a highly polyphagous lepidopteran pest, responds to various PIs in its diet by expressing genes encoding trypsins. This raises the question of whether the PI-ind...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Machado SW,de Oliveira CFR,Zério NG,Parra JRP,Macedo MLR

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Aphid, a short germband insect, displays an embryogenesis different from that of long germband insect species. Furthermore, the development of its parthenogenetic and viviparous embryo is different from that of the embryo resulting from sexual reproduction. To better understand the genetic regulation of this type of e...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Mao J,Liu C,Zeng F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Honey bees Apis mellifera L. are one of the most studied insect species due to their economic importance. The interest in studying honey bees chiefly stems from the recent rapid decrease in their world population, which has become a problem of food security. Nevertheless, there are no systemic studies on the propertie...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Syromyatnikov MY,Gureev AP,Vitkalova IY,Starkov AA,Popov VN

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：:An active corpus allatum (CA) in the blood feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus, releases a substance that inhibits metamorphosis in larvae, and activates egg production in adults. In adults, transecting the nervus corporis cardiacum II's (NCCII), which are attached posteriorly to each protocerebral lobe, greatly increas...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chiang RG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysibia nana is a solitary, secondary idiobiont hyperparasitoid that attacks newly cocooned pre-pupae and pupae of several closely related gregarious endoparasitoids in the genus Cotesia, including C. glomerata. Prior to oviposition, the female wasp injects paralysing venom into the host, thus preventing further devel...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Harvey JA,Vet LE,Witjes LM,Bezemer TM

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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：: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：:A serine protease was isolated from midguts of the bumblebee male Bombus terrestris by a combination of precipitation procedures with column chromatography. The purified enzyme exhibited two bands with molecular masses of 25 and 26 kDa as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. These b...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Brabcová J,Kindl J,Valterová I,Pichová I,Zarevúcka M,Brabcová J,Jágr M,Mikšík I

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：: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：:The polyhydroxy structure of ecdysteroids provides a basis for the formation of various derivatives including the acetonides that have been frequently prepared mainly in preparative work. Acetonides can be formed between vicinal diols in cis position such as positions C-2/C-3 and C-20/C-22 in 20-hydroxyecdysone, for e...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kayser H,Eilinger P

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Vitellogenin has been identified in the ant Camponotus festinatus, both in queens and workers. In the workers, it is already present before adult eclosion in low concentrations (less than 1 microgram/microliter hemolymph). Vitellogenin and vitellin are immunologically identical and are composed of a single type of apo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Martinez T,Wheeler D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsule formation by the moth Pseudopulsia includens requires that plasmatocytes change from being nonadhesive cells in circulation to strongly adhesive cells capable of attaching to the foreign target and one another. This change in adhesive state is induced by Plasmatocyte Spreading Peptide (PSP1); a 23 amino acid p...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Strand MR,Clark KC,Gardiner EM

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：:Host cytoskeletons facilitate the entry, replication, and egress of viruses because cytoskeletons are essential for viral survival. One mechanism of resisting viral infections involves regulating cytoskeletal polymerization/depolymerization. However, the molecular mechanisms of regulating these changes in cytoskeleton...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhang X,Chen M,Ma X,Zhao X,Wang J,Shao H,Song Q,Stanley D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell line derived from the embryos of the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis (BRL-AG-2), was used to study morphological and biochemical responses to 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). The cells respond to 10(-6) M 20E by inhibition of cell growth and enhanced production of some secreted proteins. Crude nuclear extracts ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Dhadialla TS,Tzertzinis G

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:This study was undertaken to reveal the quantitative distribution of the insect neuropeptide periviscerokinin-1 (Pea-PVK-1) in the central nervous system of Periplaneta americana and to demonstrate that neurons stained in a previous immunohistochemical study contain authentic Pea-PVK-1. For this, we combined ELISA, HP...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wegener C,Predel R,Eckert M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00