Evidence for two juvenile hormone esterase-related genes in the Colorado potato beetle.

abstract：:PCR primers designed from the alpha-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster have been used to isolate fragments from eight esterase genes in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that three are homologues of the alpha E7, alpha E8 and alpha E9 genes of the alpha-esteras...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Newcomb RD,East PD,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic ligand gated channels that are highly permeable to calcium ions. In insects, NMDARs are associated with glutamatergic neurotransmission governing diverse physiological and biological processes like vitellogenesis and ovarian development. Therefore, NMDAR may a...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Dixit S,Thakur N,Shukla A,Upadhyay SK,C Verma P

更新日期：2020-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptides and their G protein-coupled receptors are widespread throughout Metazoa and in several cases, clear orthologues can be identified in both protostomes and deuterostomes. One such neuropeptide is the insect adipokinetic hormone (AKH), which is related to the mammalian gonadotropin-releasing hormone. AKH ha...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zandawala M,Hamoudi Z,Lange AB,Orchard I

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Toll and related proteins play important roles in innate immunity in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In Drosophila melanogaster, Tehao shares a striking similarity in its intracellular domain with Toll. In this paper, we show that Tehao is expressed throughout development and appears to be glycosylated. In transie...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Luo C,Shen B,Manley JL,Zheng L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA (D7-8B) 1456 nucleotides in length was isolated from an adult, female-specific Anopheles gambiae library and identified as a member of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene family by virtue of the inferred amino acid sequence. The gene, AgGST2-1, specifies a protein that is 57% identical to the Drosophila me...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Reiss RA,James AA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like peptides (ILPs) including insulin, insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and relaxin are evolutionarily conserved hormones in metazoans, and they are involved in diverse physiological processes. The migratory brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, encodes four ILP genes (Nlilp1, Nlilp2, Nlilp3 and Nlilp4...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Xue WH,Liu YL,Jiang YQ,He SF,Wang QQ,Yang ZN,Xu HJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two different groups of piggyBac-like elements (PLE) in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens, and named them HvPLE1 and HvPLE2. An intact copy of HvPLE1 revealed the characteristics of PLE: inverted terminal repeats, inverted subterminal repeats, and an open reading frame encoding transposase, wherea...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wang J,Ren X,Miller TA,Park Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representatives of five distinct types of transposable elements of the mariner family were detected in the genomes of the Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni and its sibling species Bactrocera neohumeralis by phylogenetic analysis of transposase gene fragments. Three mariner types were also found in an additional t...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Green CL,Frommer M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

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：:We previously identified a novel non-coding immediate early gene, termed kakusei , from the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and used it as a marker to detect neural activity in the brains of foraging workers (Kiya et al .,2007). Here, we investigated the detailed kakusei gene structure. Expression analysis revealed that, in...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kiya T,Kunieda T,Kubo T

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:In the wake of constant improvements in sequencing technologies, numerous insect genomes have been sequenced. Currently, 1219 insect genome-sequencing projects have been registered with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, including 401 that have genome assemblies and 155 with an official gene set of ann...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Li F,Zhao X,Li M,He K,Huang C,Zhou Y,Li Z,Walters JR

更新日期：2019-12-01 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

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：:Aedes aegypti is a major vector of arthropod-borne viruses such as yellow fever virus and dengue viruses. Efforts to discern the function of genes involved in important behaviours, such as vector competence and host seeking through reverse genetics, would greatly benefit from the ability to generate targeted gene disr...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Traver BE,Anderson MA,Adelman ZN

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant enzymes perform a variety of vital functions including the reduction of life-shortening oxidative damage. We used the honey bee genome sequence to identify the major components of the honey bee antioxidant system. A comparative analysis of honey bee with Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae shows ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Corona M,Robinson GE

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:The P450 monooxygenases of insects are important in the metabolism of numerous endogenous and exogenous compounds. However, identity of the P450 isoform(s) involved in these reactions is rarely known. A critical first step in the identification of important P450s is the cloning and sequencing of their genes. Toward th...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Kasai S,Scott JG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-gated chloride channels (LGICs) are important targets for insecticides and parasiticides. Genes encoding subunits of two LGICs, a glutamate-gated chloride channel (MdGluCl-alpha) and a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel (MdRdl), were cloned from house-flies (Musca domestica L.). These genes w...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Eguchi Y,Ihara M,Ochi E,Shibata Y,Matsuda K,Fushiki S,Sugama H,Hamasaki Y,Niwa H,Wada M,Ozoe F,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Insect chitinases are hydrolytic enzymes required for the degradation of chitin. They are essential for insect moulting and metamorphosis. In this study, the regulation mechanism of a chitinase gene, Bombyx mori chitinase 5 (BmCHT5), was studied. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that Bm...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang X,Zheng S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) refers to the process of post-transcriptional silencing of cellular mRNA by the application of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNAi strategies have been widely employed to regulate gene expression in plants and animals including insects. With the availability of the full genome sequences of major ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Balakrishna Pillai A,Nagarajan U,Mitra A,Krishnan U,Rajendran S,Hoti SL,Mishra RK

更新日期：2017-04-01 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 fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, consists of two host strains (rice and corn) that differ in developmental, physiological and behavioural characteristics. However, because the strains are morphologically indistinguishable the investigation of strain-specific behaviour, particularly in the wild, is very diffic...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Nagoshi RN,Meagher R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transfer (HT), the exchange of genetic material between species, plays important roles in transposon biology and genome evolution. In this study, we provide the first documented example of a new Academ transposon involved in recent and distant HTs into the genomes of species belonging to seven different ord...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Zhang HH,Shen YH,Xiong XM,Han MJ,Qi DW,Zhang XG

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide array of sensilla are distributed on insect antennae, and they play a variety of important roles. Rice planthoppers, destructive pests on rice, have a unique antenna sensilla structure called the 'sensory plaque organ'. The spineless (ss) gene encodes a bHLH-PAS transcription factor and plays a key role in ante...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Li X,Liu FZ,Cai WL,Zhao J,Hua HX,Zou YL

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a promising method for validating gene function; however, its utility in nonmodel insects has proven problematic, with delivery methods being one of the main obstacles. This study investigates a novel method of RNAi delivery in aphids, the aerosolization of short interfering RNA ...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Thairu MW,Skidmore IH,Bansal R,Nováková E,Hansen TE,Li-Byarlay H,Wickline SA,Hansen AK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect chitin deacetylases (CDAs) are carbohydrate esterases that catalyze N-deacetylation of chitin to generate chitosan, a process essential for chitin organization and compactness during the formation of extracellular chitinous structure. Here we identified two CDA2 splice variants (LdCDA2a and LdCDA2b) in Leptinot...

journal_title：Insect molecular biology

authors： Wu JJ,Chen ZC,Wang YW,Fu KY,Guo WC,Li GQ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00