Sinkins SP, Gould F (June 2006). "Gene drive systems for insect disease vectors". Nature Reviews. Genetics. 7 (6): 427-35. doi: ... The genes coding for these proteins are then introduced into the symbiont, so that they can be expressed in the vector. The ... These insects include: Ae. aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus. Densovirus is an example of how the spread is ... The scientists wanted to see if maintaining the microbiome in the insect model's guts would work to keep the bees and the ...

However, recent studies of the embryology, gene expression, and nerve supply to the labrum show it is innervated by the ... Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is ... Morphology (biology) Insect physiology External morphology of Lepidoptera External morphology of Odonata Insect ecology Insect ... Although nociception has been demonstrated in insects, there is not a consensus that insects feel pain consciously. An insect ...

Tracey, W. D.; Wilson, R. I.; Laurent, G.; Benzer, S. (2003). "Painless, a Drosophila Gene Essential for Nociception". Cell. ... Insect physiology includes the physiology and biochemistry of insect organ systems. Although diverse, insects are quite similar ... Most insects are oviparous, where the young hatch after the eggs have been laid. Insect sexual reproduction starts with sperm ... A number of insects have temperature and humidity sensors and insects being small, cool more quickly than larger animals. ...

... such as the IL2Rγ gene and the β-globin gene for gene correction and CCR5 gene for mutagenesis and disablement. If the zinc ... Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 40 (10): 759-765. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.07.012. PMID 20692340. Ekker SC (2008). " ... The success of gene therapy depends on the efficient insertion of therapeutic genes at an appropriate chromosomal target site ... Carroll D (2008). "Zinc-finger Nucleases as Gene Therapy Agents". Gene Therapy. 15 (22): 1463-1468. doi:10.1038/gt.2008.145. ...

Every gene therapy has a unique risk of harm, including the risk associated with the gene delivery method (i.e., the particular ... Schmidt, Justin O.; Blum, Murray S.; Overal, William L. (1983). "Hemolytic activities of stinging insect venoms". Archives of ... Smalley E (2018). "FDA warns public of dangers of DIY gene therapy". Nat Biotechnol. 36 (2): 119-120. doi:10.1038/nbt0218-119. ... Pearlman Alex (2017). "My body, my genes". New Scientist. 236 (3152): 22-23. Bibcode:2017NewSc.236...22P. doi:10.1016/S0262- ...

The Protura constitute an order of hexapods that were previously regarded as insects, and sometimes treated as a class in their ... Genes. 10 (4): 292. doi:10.3390/genes10040292. PMC 6523364. PMID 30974866. Resh, Vincent H.; Cardé, Ring T. (2009-07-22). ... P. J. Gullan & P. S. Cranston (1994). The insects: an outline of entomology. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0-412-49360-7. G Pass ... Beutel, Rolf G.; Friedrich, Frank; Ge, Si-Qin; Yang, Xing-Ke (2014). Insect Morphology and Phylogeny. De Gruyter. p. 184. ISBN ...

Arthropod head problem Insect mouthparts Haas, M. S.; Brown, S. J.; Beeman, R. W. (2001). "Pondering the Procephalon: the ... Furthermore, it often appears as a bilobed structure, with a set of muscles, nerves and gene expression in many ways similar to ... In entomology, the labrum amounts to the "upper lip" of an insect mouth, the corresponding "lower lip" being the labium. The ... The labrum is innervated in crustaceans and insects from the tritocerebrum (the back of the brain). However, in development, ...

Robinson, G. E. (1992). "Regulation of Division of Labor in Insect Societies". Annual Review of Entomology. 37: 637-665. doi: ... Gene Ezia Robinson (born January 9, 1955) is an American entomologist, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic ... The behavior of genes. New York Times op-ed, 13 December [1] Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium (2006). "Insights into ... "Gene E. Robinson Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved March 13, 2015". Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved March 13 ...

Transformer (tra) is a family of genes which regulate sex determination in insects such as flies. Among its effects, it (P11596 ... The tra-2 gene (P19018) is needed for sexual differentiation in female fruit flies, and for spermatogenesis in the males. It is ... "Gene Review. tra - transformer". Nature Genetics. Retrieved 7 December 2017. Kopp, Artyom; Rideout, Elizabeth J.; Narsaiya, ... Verhulst, Eveline C.; van de Zande, Louis; Beukeboom, Leo W. (August 2010). "Insect sex determination: it all evolves around ...

Costa, James T. (2006). The Other Insect Societies. Belknap Press. p. 151. Newbern, E. (26 January 2016). "Mom Genes: This ... The degradation and loss of function of oviparous genes during viviparous evolution suggests that these genes would have to re- ...

This action, rather than not grasping the female at all, would have increased the male's chances of spreading its genes. The ... The first winged insect likely evolved in the Devonian given the appearance of large numbers of insects with wings in the ... Insects are thought to have evolved from a group of crustaceans. The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ... The oldest insect fossil has been proposed to be Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated to be 400 million years old, but the insect ...

"Endopterygota Insects with complete metamorphosis". Tree of Life. Retrieved 24 May 2016. Whiting, Michael F. (2002). "Mecoptera ... is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (1): 93-104. doi:10.1046/j. ... Some research suggests the nannochoristids are the only holometabolous insects with true larval compound eyes. All other eyed ... Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, Articles with 'species' microformats, Mecoptera, Insect ...

ISBN 90-04-08668-4. Gene Kritsky (1987). "Fossil Insects: Pests of Creation". 7 (1). National Center for Science Education: 13- ... v t e (CS1 errors: missing periodical, Articles with 'species' microformats, Monotypic insect genera, Prehistoric insect genera ... Choristotanyderus is an extinct, monotypic genus of protodipteran insect containing a single species, Choristotanyderus nanus ... Permian insects, Fossil taxa described in 1953, Prehistoric arthropods of Oceania, Protodiptera, All stub articles, Prehistoric ...

The winged insects are nocturnal and provide food for night-flying birds, bats, small mammals, amphibians and arthropods. The ... Whiting, Michael F. (2002). "Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera". Zoologica ... Caddisflies was the only group of these insects to use silk as part of their lifestyle, which has been a contributing factor to ... Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, the adults are small moth-like insects with two pairs of hairy membranous wings. They ...

Cenozoic insects, Extant Triassic first appearances, Insect orders, Mesozoic insects, Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Triassic ... In many Hymenoptera, sex is actually determined by a single gene locus with many alleles. In these species, haploids are male ... One consequence of haplodiploidy is that females on average actually have more genes in common with their sisters than they do ... Hymenopterans range in size from very small to large insects, and usually have two pairs of wings. Their mouthparts are adapted ...

... the gene responsible for the behavior was identified. The baculovirus gene ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase (egt) ... Because the virus only infects L. dispar, it has proven safe for use with other insects including ants, bees and non-target ... The exact mechanism for how the virus induces the larva to climb to a high vantage point before dying has been linked to a gene ... The gene responsible for the behavior of infected larvae has been found to be egt (codes ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase), ...

Steven P. Sinkins; Fred Gould (2006). "Gene drive systems for insect disease vectors" (PDF). Nature Reviews Genetics. 7 (6): ... However, conflict among genes in the same genome may arise both in events related to reproduction (a selfish gene may "cheat" ... The selfish gene theory postulates that natural selection will increase the frequency of those genes whose phenotypic effects ... Thus, males represent dead-ends to these genes. Because of this fact, cytoplasmic genes have evolved a number of mechanisms to ...

Wang YP, Lai R (February 2010). "[Insect antimicrobial peptides: structures, properties and gene regulation]". Dong Wu Xue Yan ... Indeed, an insect defensin has been experimentally converted into a toxin by deletion of a small loop that otherwise sterically ... In general, both α- and β-defensins are encoded by two-exon genes, where the first exon encodes for a hydrophobic leader ... The human genome contains theta-defensin genes, but they have a premature stop codon, hampering their expression. An artificial ...

The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. pp. 1-121. Brundage, Adrienne. Lecture. ... Trumbo, Stephen T. & Robinson, Gene E. (March 2008). "Social and nonsocial stimuli and juvenile hormone titer in a male burying ... Say, Thomas (1825). "Descriptions of new species of Coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States". Journal of the Academy ... 17 March 2009 Phillips, Michele R. "Other Insects of Forensic Importance". Forensic Entomology Evidence Training. 2007. 17 ...

... was first described in 2005 in an adenovirus as a gene homologue of an insect gap protein called innexin. Vinnexins ... While the virus genes are expressed in the caterpillar the viral DNA including the vinnexin gene does not replicate its genes ... Turnbull, M. W.; Volkoff, A.-N.; Webb, B. A.; Phelan, P. (2005). "Functional gap-junction genes are encoded by insect viruses ... When the virus genome is expressed in a cell the vinnexin gene from the virus is made into a functioning protein by the ...

"Functional gap junction genes are encoded by insect viruses". Current Biology. 15 (13): R491-R492. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.06. ... Gene Ther. 4 (6): 725-31. doi:10.1089/hum.1993.4.6-725. PMID 8186287. Pitts, JD (November 1994). "Cancer gene therapy: a ... based on gene mapping and sequence similarity: A, B and C (for example, GJA1, GJC1). However, connexin genes do not code ... The connexin genes (DNA) are transcribed to RNA, which is then translated to produce a connexin. One connexin protein has four ...

Drosophila melanogaster genes, Insect proteins, All stub articles, Protein stubs). ... It controls the alternative splicing of the fly sex determination gene doublesex. Verhulst EC, van de Zande L, Beukeboom LW ( ... Female-specific protein transformer is a protein that in Drosophila melanogaster is encoded by the tra gene. Unlike the related ... August 2010). "Insect sex determination: it all evolves around transformer" (PDF). Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. ...

"Functional analysis of four Gloverin-like genes in the silkworm, Bombyx mori". Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. ... Gloverin is an inducible antibacterial insect protein which inhibits the synthesis of vital outer membrane proteins leading to ...

The targeted activation of endogenous and exogenous genes". Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 119: 103325. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb. ... In this technique siRNA first must be designed against the target gene. Once the siRNA is configured against the gene it has to ... The upregulation of gene expression can partially be explained by the predicted gene targets of endogenous miRNAs. ... It has been found that dsRNA can also activate gene expression, a mechanism that has been termed "small RNA-induced gene ...

... this lethal gene is dominant so that all offspring of the RIDL insect will also inherit the lethal gene. This lethal gene has a ... This causes the population of insects to crash. This technique is being developed for some insects and for other insects has ... Inherited sterility in insects List of sterile insect technique trials Insect ecology Detection of genetically modified ... Lethal genes cause death in an organism, and RIDL genes only kill young insects, usually larvae or pupae. Similar to how ...

Melittin blocks the expression of inflammatory genes, thus reducing swelling and pain. It is administered by direct insect ... Many blood-feeding insects like horseflies or mosquitoes inject multiple bioactive compounds into their prey. These insects ... From sialomes to the sialoverse: an insight into salivary potion of blood-feeding insects. Adv. Insect Physiol. 37, 59e118. ( ... Heavy reliance on antibiotics, coupled with discomfort with insects in Western culture limited the field of insect pharmacology ...

... gene-based control strategies against these insect pests. Enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology Annotation: What gene products do ... genes that are highly conserved across species, genes involved in biochemical/signaling pathways, and topical genes shown to be ... BLAST and gene report pages are for a specific gene, protein, or region across the species. When looking for cytology there are ... Search Strategies-Gene reports for genes from all twelve sequenced Drosophila genomes are available in FlyBase. There are four ...

In plants, the shapes, colours, and patterns of insect-pollinated flowers like the lily have evolved to attract insects such as ... The cells of a young organism have genes that can be switched on by a chemical signal, a morphogen, resulting in the growth of ... or mimics other distasteful insects. A young bird may see a warning patterned insect like a ladybird and try to eat it, but it ... The young leopards and ladybirds, inheriting genes that somehow create spottedness, survive. But while these evolutionary and ...

Chain reaction' spreads gene through insects". 19 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015. Wade, Nicholas (19 March 2015). " ... "Gene Therapy Treats All Muscles in the Body in Muscular Dystrophy Dogs; Human Clinical Trials Are Next Step". University of ... A new gene-editing technique is reported that could prevent mitochondrial diseases, without the need for three-parent IVF. 27 ... Can its genes tell us why?". Science Daily. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015. "2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record ...

Ardell DH, Andersen SO (September 2001). "Tentative identification of a resilin gene in Drosophila melanogaster". Insect ... The Drosophila melanogaster gene is composed of 4 exons, which encode for 4 functional segments in CG15920: signal peptide and ... However, in live insects, resilin molecular can be produced and replaced constantly, which introduces an error in our ... Resilin is often found as a composite with chitin in insect cuticle, where chitin serves as the structural component. Resilin ...