abstract：:Bactrocera dorsalis is a destructive fruit-eating pest that causes severe economic damage to the fruit and vegetable industry. Methyl eugenol (ME) has been widely used as an effective sexual attractant for male fruit flies through olfactory perception. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the olfactory percepti...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Zheng W,Zhu C,Peng T,Zhang H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the behavioural and electrophysiological responses of taiga ticks (Ixodes persulcatus) to several olfactory stimuli: Osmopherone® (5-a-androst-16-en-3-ol), Osmopherine® (butanoic and 3-methylbutanoic acids), DEET® (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide), ethanol (96%), and water (control stimulus). To study individua...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Romashchenko AV,Ratushnyak AS,Zapara TA,Tkachev SE,Moshkin MP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When honey bees approach blossoms, they are attracted by the color and form of the goal in their visual field, and they use these cues for a successful revisit. Their visual system receives cues by two main types of parallel channels behind the retina; one channel for colors, and a monochrome channel for the orientati...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Hsu PS,Yang EC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While a wide array of insects form symbiotic relationships with microbes, the underlying mechanisms of these relationships are various and complex. In this study, we investigated the role that the mycangial fungus Penicillium herquei plays in the development of the leaf-rolling weevil Euops chinesis, which feeds on th...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Li X,Guo W,Ding J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature adult insects, such as parasitic wasps or 'parasitoids' often depend on supplemental nutritional sources, such as sugars and other carbohydrates, to maximize their life-expectancy and reproductive potential. These food resources are commonly obtained from animal secretions or plant exudates, including honeyd...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Harvey JA,Cloutier J,Visser B,Ellers J,Wäckers FL,Gols R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of using acaricides to control varroa mites has long been a concern to the beekeeping industry due to unintended negative impacts on honey bee health. Irregular ontogenesis, suppression of immune defenses, and impairment of normal behavior have been linked to pesticide use. External stressors, including par...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Boncristiani H,Underwood R,Schwarz R,Evans JD,Pettis J,vanEngelsdorp D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparison to other similarly sized mantis species examined in previous studies, Euchomenella macrops has a significantly smaller head, shorter foreleg tibia, but longer prothorax which have been interpreted as specializations for the capture of smaller, slower prey. We tested this conjecture by assessing the rates...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Prete FR,Theis R,Komito JL,Dominguez J,Dominguez S,Svenson G,Wieland F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most epithelia contain multiple cell types that interact to perform the roles required of the tissue. In insect epithelia, the apical plasma membrane V-ATPase dominates ion-transport models, and (as in vertebrates) is usually found in specialized intercalated cell types or regions. The Malpighian tubules of several in...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Dow JA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila multiple circadian oscillators and behavioral rhythms are known to exist, yet most previous studies that attempted to understand circadian entrainment have focused on the activity/rest rhythm and to some extent the adult emergence rhythm. Egg laying behavior of Drosophila females also follows circadian r...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Kannan NN,Reveendran R,Hari Dass S,Manjunatha T,Sharma VK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestmate recognition in ants is based on perceived differences in a multi-component blend of hydrocarbons that are present on the insect cuticle. Although supplementation experiments have shown that some classes of hydrocarbons, such as methyl branched alkanes and alkenes, have a salient role in nestmate recognition, ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Bos N,Dreier S,Jørgensen CG,Nielsen J,Guerrieri FJ,d'Ettorre P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One strategy to enhance the durability of Hessian fly resistance (R) genes in wheat is to combine them with transgenes for resistance. To identify potential transgenes for resistance a protocol for rapidly screening the proteins they encode for efficacy toward resistance is required. However, the Hessian fly is an obl...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Shukle RH,Subramanyam S,Williams CE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study re-examines the effects of environmental factors including substrate color, humidity, food quality, light intensity and temperature on the green-brown polyphenism, black patterning and background body color of solitarious (isolated-reared) nymphs of Schistocerca gregaria. All individuals reared in yellow-gr...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Tanaka S,Harano K,Nishide Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The way energy resources are used under variable environmental conditions lies at the heart of our understanding of resource management and opportunism in many organisms. Here we sought to determine how a time-limited, synovigenic and polyphagous insect with a high reproductive-potential (Anastrephaludens), copes beha...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Aluja M,Birke A,Guillén L,Díaz-Fleischer F,Nestel D

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight behaviors in various insect species are closely correlated with their mechanical and neuronal properties. Compared to locusts and flies which have been intensively studied, moths have "intermediate" properties in terms of the neurogenic muscle activations, power generation by indirect muscles, and two-winged-in...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Ando N,Wang H,Shirai K,Kiguchi K,Kanzaki R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat is the principal host-associated cue for the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus. It is both necessary and sufficient to trigger the "proboscis extension response" (PER), an essential element of the feeding behaviour of this insect. The aim of this study was to determine whether the temperature of an object itsel...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Fresquet N,Lazzari CR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded the eclosion time of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis, at different depths in the outdoor soil and under temperature cycles with various amplitudes in the laboratory, to examine the timing adjustment of eclosion in response to temperature cycles and their amplitudes in the pupal stage. In the soil, m...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Miyazaki Y,Goto SG,Tanaka K,Saito O,Watari Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetic markers can be used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for thermal resistance and this has allowed characterization of a major QTL for knockdown resistance to high temperature in Drosophila melanogaster. The QTL showed trade-off associations with cold resistance under laboratory conditions. Ho...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Loeschcke V,Kristensen TN,Norry FM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honey bees have brain structures with specialized and developed systems of communication that account for memory, learning capacity and behavioral organization with a set of genes homologous to vertebrate genes. Many microtubule- and actin-based molecular motors are involved in axonal/dendritic transport. Myosin-Va is...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Calábria LK,Peixoto PM,Passos Lima AB,Peixoto LG,de Moraes VR,Teixeira RR,Dos Santos CT,E Silva LO,da Silva Mde F,dos Santos AA,Garcia-Cairasco N,Martins AR,Espreafico EM,Espindola FS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of the translational repressor 4E-binding protein (4E-BP) plays a critical role in regulating the overall translation levels in cells. In the present study, we investigated 4E-BP phosphorylation of Bombyx mori eggs by an immunoblot analysis of a conserved phospho-specific antibody to 4E-BP and demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Gu SH,Young SC,Tsai WH,Lin JL,Lin PL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference has been successfully used in adult honeybees, but there are only few reports about abdominal application of dsRNA/siRNA which have reached more distant tissues than the fat body. We studied systemic RNAi in honeybees by injecting fluorescent siRNA of the ubiquitously expressed honeybee homologue of t...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Jarosch A,Moritz RF

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly emerged adult holometabolous insects must still complete considerable morphological, metabolic, and neural maturation. Despite this, adults have frequently been documented to fly prior to finishing maturation and attaining peak physiological capacity. In some species, flight is limited by the unfurling of the wi...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Skandalis DA,Roy C,Darveau CA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of caste differentiation is essential to insect eusociality. Termite soldiers are sterile and cannot eat by themselves because they have specialized mouth morphology. Almost all termite species have a soldier caste, and the soldier ratio per colony is maintained at a low level, probably by elaborate reg...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Watanabe D,Gotoh H,Miura T,Maekawa K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the following heavy metals, copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb), on haemocytes of the house fly Musca domestica L. was studied under laboratory conditions. House fly larvae were exposed to low or high, semi-lethal concentrations of metals. These particular metals were selected because t...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Borowska J,Pyza E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diapause is an alternate developmental pathway that is regulated by the neuroendocrine system in insects. To date, much of the information that has been published regarding the possible molecular events associated with diapause have been at the level of transcription. However, since transcription and translation are n...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Pavlides SC,Pavlides SA,Tammariello SP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The species-specificity of pairing has been studied in three sympatric Neotropical termites: Cornitermes bequaerti, Cornitermes cumulans and Cornitermes silvestrii (Termitidae, Syntermitinae). Bioassays showed that sex attraction was highly species-specific between C. bequaerti and C. cumulans but not between C. cumul...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Bordereau C,Cancello EM,Sillam-Dussès D,Sémon E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glossina exhibit cyclic ((CYC)GE) or continuous gas exchange ((CON)GE) patterns at rest. However, the factors influencing the transition from one pattern to another are not well understood for these or other insect species. This study examines which factors could aid in predicting the presence or absence of (CYC)GE in...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Basson CH,Terblanche JS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane is an important crop that has recently become subject to attacks from the weevil Sphenophorus levis, which is not efficiently controlled with chemical insecticides. This demands the development of new control devices for which digestive physiology data are needed. In the present study, ion-exchange chromatog...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Soares-Costa A,Dias AB,Dellamano M,de Paula FF,Carmona AK,Terra WR,Henrique-Silva F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larvae of the greater waxmoth (Galleria mellonella) become paralysed by the venom of the braconid wasp (Habrobracon hebetor) a few minutes after intoxication. The profound neuromuscular paralysis, which may last for several weeks, includes all somatic muscles that are innervated through neuromuscular transmission. The...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Sláma K,Lukáš J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Queens of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata appear to maintain reproductive monopoly through pheromone rather than through physical aggression. Upon queen removal, one of the workers (potential queen, PQ) becomes extremely aggressive but drops her aggression immediately upon returning the queen. If the...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Mitra A,Saha P,Chaoulideer ME,Bhadra A,Gadagkar R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caddisflies, whose aquatic larvae build a portable case with silk, are a suitable model organism to test the impacts of resource allocation trade-off during development and examine the evolution of life-history strategies. In the caddisfly Limnephilus rhombicus, adult feeding is minimal. Therefore, the whole resources...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Mondy N,Cathalan E,Hemmer C,Voituron Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of mites and ticks are of agricultural and medical importance. Much can be learned from the study of transcriptomes of acarines which can generate DNA-sequence information of potential target genes for the control of acarine pests. High throughput transcriptome sequencing can also yield sequences of genes...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Cabrera AR,Donohue KV,Khalil SM,Scholl E,Opperman C,Sonenshine DE,Roe RM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copula duration and sperm storage patterns can directly or indirectly affect fitness of male and female insects. Although both sexes have an interest in the outcome, research has tended to focus on males. To investigate female influences, we compared copula duration and sperm storage of Queensland fruit fly females th...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Pérez-Staples D,Weldon CW,Radhakrishnan P,Prenter J,Taylor PW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some insect species, certain substances in the seminal fluid of males induce egg production and laying in females. We determined the effects of male-derived substances on female oviposition behaviour in two Callosobruchus species, C. chinensis and C. maculatus. Aqueous extracts of the accessory gland; testis; and s...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Yamane T,Miyatake T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNA) participate in regulating diverse biological pathways by translational repression in animals. They have attracted increasing attention recently. However, little work has been done on the miRNA genes in agriculturally important pests. Because the transcripts of most miRNA genes are the products of typ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Jia Q,Lin K,Liang J,Yu L,Li F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facultative diapause, a strategy that allows insects to initiate additional generations when conditions are favorable or to enter diapause when they are not, has a profound effect on the ecology and evolution of species. Most previous studies have concentrated on the role of photoperiod and temperature in inducing fac...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Liu Z,Gong P,Li D,Wei W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) is an important agricultural pest with a pupal diapause. Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a key speed-limited enzyme of oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria for ATP production. A differentially expressed cDNA fragment encoding COX subunit 1 (cox1) was cloned by different...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Yang J,Zhu J,Xu WH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While defending lek-territories, male Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) produce chemical, acoustic and visual courtship signals. In the laboratory and under semi-natural conditions, topical application of the juvenile hormone analog methoprene doubles pheromone production and subsequently doubles sexual success. However, sex...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Pereira R,Sivinski J,Teal P,Brockmann J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study gives the first electrophysiological evidence of hygroreceptors in carabids. Extracellular recordings from the antennal dome-shaped sensilla of the carabid beetle Pterostichus oblolongopunctatus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) clearly show the presence of moist and dry neuron antagonistically responding to humidity...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Merivee E,Must A,Luik A,Williams I

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites by drawing nutrition from their hosts can exert an energetic stress on them. Honeybee foragers with their high metabolic demand due to flight are especially prone to such a stress when they are infected. We hypothesized that infection by the microsporidian gut parasite Nosema ceranae can lower the hemolymph ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Mayack C,Naug D

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brush border membrane vesicles (BBMVs) from Whole larvae of Aedes aegypti (AeBBMVWs) contain an H(+) V-ATPase (V), a Na(+)/H(+) antiporter, NHA1 (A) and a Na(+)-coupled, nutrient amino acid transporter, NAT8 (N), VAN for short. All V-ATPase subunits are present in the Ae. aegypti genome and in the vesicles. AgNAT8 was...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Harvey WR,Okech BA,Linser PJ,Becnel JJ,Ahearn GA,Sterling KM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00