He, P Li, Z-Q Zhang, Y-F Chen, L Wang, J Xu, L Zhang, Y-N He, M
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Insect molecular biology
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) is an urban pest with a precise chemosensory system that helps it achieve complex physiological behaviours, including locating food and mating. However, its chemosensory mechanisms have not been well studied. Here, we identified 71 putative odorant carrier protein genes in P. americana, including 57 ne...
Wagar, Z L Tree, M O Mpoy, M C Conway, M J
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Insect molecular biology
Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of a number of human pathogens including dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV). Ae. aegypti acquires these viruses during the processing of bloodmeals obtained from an infected vertebrate host. Vertebrate blood contains a number of factors that have the potential to modify virus acquisition in the mosquito. I...
Yang, P-J Zhan, M-Y Ye, C Yu, X-Q Rao, X-J
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Insect molecular biology
Peptidoglycan is the major bacterial component recognized by the insect immune system. Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) are a family of pattern-recognition receptors that recognize peptidoglycans and modulate innate immune responses. Some PGRPs retain N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (Enzyme Commission number: 3.5.1.28) activity to hydr...
Shirk, P D Furlong, R B Dolan, A Werren, J H
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Insect molecular biology
The jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), is an easily reared parasitoid that is providing an ever increasingly malleable model for examining the biology and genetics of Hymenoptera. Utilizing genomic and transcriptome resources, 5' upstream transcriptional regulatory sequences (TREs) from three highly expressed genes...
Li, C Li, B Ma, S Lü, P Chen, K
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Insect molecular biology
Dusky (dy) is required for cytoskeletal reorganization during wing morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, but which genes participate together with dy for wing morphogenesis has remained unclear. In Tribolium castaneum, dy is highly expressed at the late embryonic stage. Tissue-specific expression analysis indicated high expression levels of dy ...
Peyser, R D Lanno, S M Shimshak, S J Coolon, J D
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Insect molecular biology
Drosophila sechellia is a dietary specialist species of fruit fly that has evolved resistance to the toxic secondary defence compounds produced by the fruit of its preferred host plant Morinda citrifolia. The genetic basis of adult toxin resistance is the result of evolution at five loci across the genome. Genetic mapping between D. sechellia and D...
Liu, H-W Wang, L-L Meng, Z Tang, X Li, Y-S Xia, Q-Y Zhao, P
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Insect molecular biology
Clip domain serine proteases (CLIPs), characterized by one or more conserved clip domains, are essential components of extracellular signalling cascades in various biological processes, especially in innate immunity and the embryonic development of insects. Additionally, CLIPs may have additional non-immune functions in insect development. In the p...
Zuo, Y-Y Huang, J-L Wang, J Feng, Y Han, T-T Wu, Y-D Yang, Y-H
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Insect molecular biology
P-glycoprotein [P-gp or the ATP-binding cassette transporter B1 (ABCB1)] is an important participant in multidrug resistance of cancer cells, yet the precise function of this arthropod transporter is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the importance of P-gp for susceptibility to insecticides in the beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) usi...
Ogihara, M H Ikeda, H Yamada, N Hikiba, J Nakaoka, T Fujimoto, Y Suzuki, Y Saito, K Mizoguchi, A Kataoka, H
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Insect molecular biology
In this study, we identified ecdysteroidogenic enzymes in the cabbage armyworm, Mamestra brassicae, and demonstrated reduced expression of these genes during diapause. Some insects employ a temporary developmental arrest, diapause, to survive in severe environments. The titres of the moulting hormone ecdysteroid were reduced in diapause pupae of M....
Xiao, Y Sun, L Ma, X-Y Dong, K Liu, H-W Wang, Q Guo, Y-Y Liu, Z-W Zhang, Y-J
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Insect molecular biology
Chemosensory membrane proteins, including odorant receptors (ORs), ionotropic receptors (IRs), gustatory receptors (GRs) and sensory neurone membrane proteins (SNMPs), are supposed to be crucial macromolecules in the insect olfactory signal transduction pathway. The alfalfa plant bug Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is highly at...
