abstract：:Animal-pollinated plants face a common problem, how their defensive anti-herbivore compounds may impair or alter pollinator behavior. Evolution has tailored multiple solutions, which largely involve pollinator tolerance or manipulation, to the benefit of the plant, not the removal of these compounds from pollen or nec...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Gong Z,Gu G,Wang Y,Dong S,Tan K,Nieh JC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that viscosity reduces the intake rates in nectar-feeding insects, such as nectivorous ants, though it remains unclear whether viscosity imposes a higher energy investment in these insects, and how this affects their feeding motivation. To address this issue, we studied feeding behavior, metabolism, a...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Lois-Milevicich J,Schilman PE,Josens R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system of Rhodnius prolixus comprehends the synthesis of different effectors that modulate the intestinal microbiota population and the life cycle of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi inside the vector midgut. One of these immune responses is the production of reactive nitrogen species (RNS) derived by the act...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Batista KKDS,Vieira CS,Florentino EB,Caruso KFB,Teixeira PTP,Moraes CDS,Genta FA,de Azambuja P,de Castro DP

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals have been shown to select among nutritionally complementary foods to reach a specific balance of nutrients that optimizes key life history traits. Nutritional ecology theory, however, predicts that an animal with a diet that is very stable in its composition, and with nutritional requirements that do not ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Poissonnier LA,Simpson SJ,Dussutour A,Buhl J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila suzukii is an invasive pest that prefers to lay eggs in ripening fruits, whereas most closely related Drosophila species exclusively use rotten fruit as oviposition site. This behaviour is allowed by an enlarged and serrated ovipositor that can pierce intact fruit skin, and by multiple contact sensory syste...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Crava CM,Zanini D,Amati S,Sollai G,Crnjar R,Paoli M,Rossi-Stacconi MV,Rota-Stabelli O,Tait G,Haase A,Romani R,Anfora G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although scientists know that overheating kills many organisms, they do not agree on the mechanism. According to one theory, referred to as oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance, overheating occurs when a warming organism's demand for oxygen exceeds its supply, reducing the organism's supply of ATP. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Youngblood JP,VandenBrooks JM,Babarinde O,Donnay ME,Elliott DB,Fredette-Roman J,Angilletta MJ Jr

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pierid butterfly Colias croceus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785), established in the Azores archipelago, is polymorphic with six forms, C. croceus f. croceus ♂ and ♀, C. c. f. cremonae ♂ and ♀, C. c. f. helice ♀, and C. c. f. cremonaehelice ♀. We investigated the optical mechanisms underlying the wing colouration of t...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Hutsebaut J,Leertouwer HL,Stavenga DG

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea: Liviidae) is an important pest of citrus species worldwide because it transmits Candidatus Liberibacter spp. (Alphaproteobacteria); the causative agents of an incurable citrus disease known as huanglongbing or greening disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Nakabachi A,Fujikami M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects are known to selectively balance their intake of protein and carbohydrate to optimize reproduction and survival. For insects who feed on decomposing fruit, fluctuations in macronutrient composition occur as fruits ripe and decomposition progresses which may challenge optimal resource allocation. Using Drosophi...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Davies LR,Schou MF,Kristensen TN,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) are morphologically four-winged, but are functionally dipterous insects. During flight, their fore- and hindwings are coupled by means of the forewing posterior rolled margin (PRM) and hindwing hamuli. Morphological analysis shows that the PRM can be connected to the hamuli, so that t...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Ma Y,Ren H,Rajabi H,Zhao H,Ning J,Gorb S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important component of South Africa's malaria elimination agenda is identifying the entomological drivers of residual transmission, especially those that present opportunities for enhanced vector control. Seasonal mosquito density correlates directly with malaria transmission in South Africa. Transmission is highes...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Burke AM,Brooke BD,Duncan FD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of response to sugar plays a role in many aspects of honey bee behavior including age dependent polyethism and division of labor. Bees may tune their sensitivity to sugars so that they maximize collection of high quality nectar, but they must also be able to collect from less profitable sources when high qua...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Mustard JA,Akyol E,Robles KD,Ozturk C,Kaftanoglu O

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune function is a complex collection of responses that often trade-off with one another and with other life history traits, because of the high costs of mounting and maintaining immune responses. Animals, even those from the same populations, may emphasize different aspects of immune function depending on their hab...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Kirschman LJ,Morales D,Crawford E,Zera AJ,Warne RW

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to the fungus Metarhizium robertsii and changes in host defences were evaluated in different stages of the intermoult period (4-6 h, 34-36 h and 84-86 h post moult in IV larval instars) of the Colorado potato beetle. A significant thickening of the cuticle during larval growth was accompanied by decreas...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Tomilova OG,Yaroslavtseva ON,Ganina MD,Tyurin MV,Chernyak EI,Senderskiy IV,Noskov YA,Polenogova OV,Akhanaev YB,Kryukov VY,Glupov VV,Morozov SV

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peritrophic matrix (PM) is an extracellular, semi-permeable biocomposite that lines the midgut of most insects. The PM serves as the first defense in the midgut to resist microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, and to protect epithelial cells from mechanical damage. The PM also separates the ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Liu X,Cooper AMW,Zhang J,Zhu KY

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanism in insects is important for their physical protection, immunoreactions, and sclerotization. The vetch aphid, Megoura viciae (Buckton), has relatively strong tanning in its prothorax, head, antennae, cornicles, and legs. It was hypothesized that M. viciae may sequester the high level of l-DOPA in its host Vici...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Wang XX,Feng ZJ,Chen ZS,Zhang ZF,Zhang Y,Liu TX

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) rub together their specialised forewings to produce sound, a process known as stridulation. During wing closure, a lobe on the anal margin of the right forewing (a scraper), engages with a tooth-covered file on the left forewing. The movement of the scraper across the file pro...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Baker AA,Jonsson T,Aldridge S,Montealegre-Z F

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybee drinking is facilitated by a "mop-like" tongue, which helps honeybees suck in the sucrose solution from the environment. However, the liquid-transport mechanism from the pharynx to the crop, especially the natural link between abdominal pumping and dipping behavior on the sucrose solution intake, remains obsc...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Zhao J,Meng F,Yan S,Wu J,Liang Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine is a potential integrator between the central nervous system and reproductive system in insects. To test for a possible action of dopamine on the male reproductive organ via hemolymph in honey bees, relative expression levels of dopamine receptor genes and second messenger levels responding to dopamine in the...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Matsushima K,Watanabe T,Sasaki K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect peritrophic membrane (PM) is a non-cellular structure composed of secreted proteins imbedded in a proteoglycan matrix together with chitin. It separates the midgut epithelium from the intestinal contents, and functions in the digestion of food. Furthermore it acts as a protective barrier against abrasive pa...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Liu D,De Schutter K,Smargiasso N,De Pauw E,Van Damme EJM,Smagghe G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain male fruit flies from the genera Bactrocera and Zeugodacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) actively forage for floral semiochemicals produced by some endemic Bulbophyllum orchids found in tropical and subtropical forests. These floral semiochemicals are largely classified as either phenylbutanoids (e.g., raspberry keto...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Shamshir RA,Wee SL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next generation sequencing has revealed the widespread occurrence of persistent virus infections in insects but little is known regarding to what extent persistent infections can affect cellular physiology and how they might contribute to the development of disease. In contrast to the pathogenic infections occurring i...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Wang L,Cappelle K,Santos D,Vanden Broeck J,Smagghe G,Swevers L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormancy is a developmental arrest in arthropods, in response to unfavorable conditions in temporally varying environments. In Aedes aegypti, the supposed inability of eggs to inhibit hatching has been used to explain the restriction of this species to tropical and subtropical regions. However, the geographic range of...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Fischer S,De Majo MS,Di Battista CM,Montini P,Loetti V,Campos RE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protapion trifolii and P. fulvipes (Coleoptera: Brentidae) are major pests in European clover seed production. Previous studies have reported a high host plant fidelity of these weevils for red and white clover species, respectively, driven by host plant olfactory cues. Given the specific host preferences observed in ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Carrasco D,Nyabuga FN,Anderbrant O,Svensson GP,Birgersson G,Lankinen Å,Larsson MC,Andersson MN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature can modulate the responses of ectotherms to environmental stressors, such as food shortage. Temperature-mediated plasticity in starvation resistance can arise by changes in the amount of energy stored, the speed of energy expenditure, or the threshold energy reserves required for survival. However, few stu...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Jang T,Lee KP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect hemocytes play an important role in insects' defense against environmental stressors as they are entirely dependent on their innate immune system for pathogen defense. In recent years a dramatic decline of pollinators has been reported in many countries. The drivers of this declines appear to be associated with...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Walderdorff L,Laval-Gilly P,Bonnefoy A,Falla-Angel J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivorous insects use complex protease complements to process plant proteins, useful to adjust their digestive functions to the plant diet and to elude the antidigestive effects of dietary protease inhibitors. We here assessed whether basic profiles and diet-related adjustments of the midgut protease complement may ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Rasoolizadeh A,Goulet MC,Guay JF,Cloutier C,Michaud D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals often alter their food choices following a pathogen infection in order to increase immune function and combat the infection. Whether social animals that collect food for their brood or nestmates adjust their nutrient intake to the infection states of their social partners is virtually unexplored. Here we devel...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Poissonnier LA,Lihoreau M,Gomez-Moracho T,Dussutour A,Buhl J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric oxygen is one of the most important atmospheric component for all terrestrial organisms. Variation in atmospheric oxygen has wide ranging effects on animal physiology, development, and evolution. This variation in oxygen has the potential to affect both respiratory systems (the supply side) and mitochondri...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： VandenBrooks JM,Gstrein G,Harmon J,Friedman J,Olsen M,Ward A,Parker G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An animal's phenotype may be shaped by its genes, but also reflects its own environment and often that of its parents. Nongenetic parental effects are often mediated by steroid hormones, and operate between parents and offspring through mechanisms that are well described in vertebrate and model systems. However, less ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Crocker KC,Hunter MD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honey bees will learn to respond to an odor when their antennae are stimulated with sucrose, even if they are not fed during the conditioning phase. However, if they are not fed, the memory of this association is significantly reduced 24 h after conditioning. These results suggest that stimulation of proboscis with su...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Mustard JA,Alvarez V,Barocio S,Mathews J,Stoker A,Malik K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pepck is a metabolic enzyme that participates in gluconeogenesis through the conversion of oxaloacetate into phosphoenol pyruvate. Numerous transcriptomic studies have identified Pepck as a potential key player during diapause and various stresses responses. Here, we describe expression patterns of both cytosolic and ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Spacht DE,Teets NM,Denlinger DL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool for artificially manipulating gene expression in diverse organisms. In the honey bee, Apis mellifera, both long double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and small interference RNA (siRNA) have been successfully used to reduce targeted gene expression and induce specific phenotypes. Howeve...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Guo X,Wang Y,Sinakevitch I,Lei H,Smith BH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical studies have described in detail the complex and regionalized morphology of the Malpighian tubule (MT) in larval Lepidoptera. Recent studies revealed unusual aspects of ion transport in the Malpighian tubules of the larva of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni. These included: cation reabsorption via seconda...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Kolosov D,Tauqir M,Rajaruban S,Piermarini PM,Donini A,O'Donnell MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males of the Asian rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, possess exaggerated head and thoracic horns that scale dramatically out of proportion to body size. While studies of insulin signaling suggest that this pathway regulates nutrition-dependent growth including exaggerated horns, what regulates disproportionate...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Hust J,Lavine MD,Worthington AM,Zinna R,Gotoh H,Niimi T,Lavine L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the emergence of the Ceratitis capitata imago, the pale and folded wings are expanded and sclerotized to acquire the definitive form and to stabilize the cuticle. The wings of this fly show a specific pattern of brownish and black spots. Black spots are pigmented by melanin, whereas there was scarce information ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Pérez MM,Bochicchio PA,Rabossi A,Quesada-Allué LA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is regarded as the most important parasite of honey bees and plays a fundamental role in the decline of bee colonies observed in the last decade in the Northern hemisphere. Parasitization has a number of detrimental effects on bees, including reduced nursing, which can have importa...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Zanni V,Değirmenci L,Annoscia D,Scheiner R,Nazzi F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is the first to fully evaluate whether electrical signals applied to large insects during electropenetrography (EPG; also called electrical penetration graph) negatively affect insect behavior. During EPG, electrical signals are applied to plants, and thus to the gold-wire-tethered insects feeding on them. ...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Backus EA,Cervantes FA,Godfrey L,Akbar W,Clark TL,Rojas MG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently suggested that female mate choice, based on sexually selected ornaments, is an important component of social wasps' reproductive biology. The correlates of male ornaments that could be of a female's interest, however, remain to be investigated. Males of the Neotropical paper wasp Polistes simillim...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： de Souza AR,Guimarães Simões T,Rantala MJ,Fernando Santos E,Lino-Netto J,do Nascimento FS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting how rapid climate change will affect terrestrial biota depends on a thorough understanding of an organism's biology and evolutionary history. Organisms at their range boundaries are particularly sensitive to climate change. As predominantly terrestrial poikilotherms, insects are often geographically limited...

journal_title：Journal of insect physiology

authors： Halbritter DA,Teets NM,Williams CM,Daniels JC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00