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abstract::Phosphofructokinase (PFK) is a rate-limiting enzyme in glycolysis, but its linkage with locomotion in termites is not well understood, despite the demonstrated involvement of this gene in the locomotion of different animals. Here, we investigated the effect of the pfk gene on locomotion in the subterranean termite Ret...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12672
更新日期:2021-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ecdysteroids, as the key growth hormones, regulate moulting, metamorphosis and reproduction in arthropods. Ecdysteroid biosynthesis is catalysed by a series of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYP450s) encoded by Halloween genes, including spook (spo), phantom (phm), disembodied (dib), shadow (sad) and shade (shd). The...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12678
更新日期:2021-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone is fundamental for regulating moulting and metamorphosis in immature insects, and it plays a role in physiological regulation in adult insects. This hormone acts by binding and activating a receptor, the ecdysone receptor, which is part of the nuclear receptor gene superfamily. Here, we ...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12696
更新日期:2021-01-17 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12690
更新日期:2020-12-27 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12665
更新日期:2020-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12636
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Culex quinquefasciatus is a vector of many diseases that adversely impact human and animal health; however, compared to other mosquito vectors limited genome engineering technologies have been characterized for this vector. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) bas...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12626
更新日期:2020-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12613
更新日期:2020-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12614
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly) are polyphagous horticultural pests of eastern Australia. Heterogametic males contain a sex-determining Y-chromosome thought to be gene poor and repetitive. Here, we report 39 Y-chromosome scaffolds (~700 kb) from B. tryoni identified using genotype-by-sequencing data and whole...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12602
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The intensely studied white gene is widely used as a genetic marker in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we cloned and characterized the white gene in an important pest of the fruit industry, Bactrocera dorsalis, to understand its functional role in pigmentation. We obtained BdWhite knockout strains, based on the wild-ty...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12592
更新日期:2019-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/imb.12599
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the brain of holometabolous insects such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the fruitless gene produces sex-specific gene products under the control of the sex-specific splicing cascade and contributes to the formation of the sexually dimorphic circuits. Similar sex-specific gene products of fruitless homolo...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12590
更新日期:2019-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12585
更新日期:2019-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12579
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, is a major threat to rice production. The eggshell plays an important role in insect reproduction. The constituents and formation process of BPH eggshells remains largely unknown. Here, we report a novel eggshell-associated protein, NlChP38, containing an amelogenin dom...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12576
更新日期:2019-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12555
更新日期:2019-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12538
更新日期:2019-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12532
更新日期:2019-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12524
更新日期:2019-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12521
更新日期:2018-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12520
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cellulose is a major component of the primary and secondary cell walls in plants. Cellulose is considered to be the most abundant biopolymer on Earth and represents a large potential source of metabolic energy. Yet, cellulose degradation is rare and mostly restricted to cellulolytic microorganisms. Recently, various m...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12500
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The muga silkworm, Antheraea assamensis, is exclusively present in the northeastern regions of India and rearing of this silkworm is a vocation unique to this region in the world. Through culture-dependent techniques, generic identification using 16S ribosomal RNA probes, diversity analysis and qualitative screening f...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12495
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Apis mellifera plays crucial roles in maintaining the balance of global ecosystems and stability of agricultural systems by helping pollination of flowering plants, including many crops. In recent years, this balance has been disrupted greatly by some pesticides, which results in great losses of honeybees worldwide. P...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12390
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Baculovirus-host interactions are important models for studying the biological control of lepidopteran pests. Research on baculovirus-host interactions has focussed on baculovirus manipulation of cellular signalling pathways, including the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases/...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12386
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Vitellogenin (Vg) is a source of nutrition for embryo development. Our previous study showed that the silkworm (Bombyx mori) transcription factor broad complex isoform 2 (BmBrC-Z2) regulates gene expression of the Vg gene (BmVg) by induction with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). However, the mechanism by which 20E regulates ...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12315
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The western corn rootworm (WCR), a major pest of maize, is notorious for rapidly adapting biochemically, behaviourally and developmentally to a variety of control methods. Despite much effort, the genetic basis of WCR adaptation remains a mystery. Since transformation-based applications such as transposon tagging and ...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12305
更新日期:2017-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12301
更新日期:2017-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/imb.12282
更新日期:2017-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12288
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Loxosceles intermedia venom comprises a complex mixture of proteins, glycoproteins and low molecular mass peptides that act synergistically to immobilize envenomed prey. Analysis of a venom-gland transcriptome from L. intermedia revealed that knottins, also known as inhibitor cystine knot peptides, are the most abunda...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12268
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The maternally inherited bacterium Wolbachia is well known for spreading in natural populations by manipulating the reproduction of its arthropod hosts, but can also have mutualist effects that increase host fitness. In mosquitoes and Drosophila some Wolbachia strains can lead to an increase in survival of virus-infec...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12245
更新日期:2016-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12244
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lepidoptera is one of the most widespread insect orders and includes several agriculturally important insect species. Ecological success of the lepidopteran insects partly depends on their adaptive chemoreception tactics, which play an important role in the selection of hosts, egg-laying sites and mates. Members of th...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/imb.12246
更新日期:2016-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12226
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The insertion of exogenous genetic cargo into insects using transposable elements is a powerful research tool with potential applications in meeting food security and public health challenges facing humanity. piggyBac is the transposable element most commonly utilized for insect germline transformation. The described ...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12220
更新日期:2016-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12225
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Despite the importance of locust density-dependent polyphenism as a model system for understanding phenotypic plasticity, there is still much to be learnt about its underlying molecular control. Here we describe the first investigation into the expression of genes encoding the DNA methylation machinery in the migrator...
journal_title:Insect molecular biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12203
更新日期:2016-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/imb.12205
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00