Flour beetle
Longevity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum is enhanced by broccoli and depends on nrf-2, jnk-1 and foxo-1 homologous genes
... We investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying the antigeric effects of broccoli by RNAi, which can be achieved in a wide range of insects by the injection of dsRNA (Price and Gatehouse 2008). RNAi can also be ...
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An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of the Selfish Genetic Element Medea in Red Flour Beetle Populations
... of flour beetle populations in several US commercial grain storage and processing facilities found evidence of population structure not associated with either geographic distance or the commodity type (rice ...
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Efficiency of Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their Cry proteins against the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
... Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is one of the used bioagents in insect pest control. Its toxicity is largely due to the insecticide endotoxins (crystalline (Cry) proteins) that act selectively on insects and nematodes. The ...
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Comparative bioassay of silver nanoparticles and malathion on infestation of red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
... major beetle which infests the stored ...this beetle is necessary to prevent eco- nomic ...red flour beetle, but now, it is not so effective against this pest due to the insect resistance ...
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Rival male chemical cues evoke changes in male pre- and post-copulatory investment in a flour beetle
... broad-horned flour beetle (Gnatocerus cornutus), we investigated the importance of contact-derived rival male CHCs in informing male perception of sperm competition risk and ...
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PREDATORY APTNESS OF ANTS AGAINST RED FLOUR BEETLE, TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM HERBST (TENEBRIONIDAE: COLEOPTERA) IN WHEAT FLOUR
... aptness tests were carried out in the incubator at 30±2°C and 70-75% relative humidity and laid down in completely randomized design. The ants were provided with supplemental food as described above. Ants dying naturally ...
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Evolving enhancer promoter interactions within the tinman complex of the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
... the flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), the expression of a key pericardial determinant, ladybird, is absent from the dorsal ...
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Cytogenetic Analysis of Red Rust Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum , Herbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
... rust flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) is a word wide distributed stored grain pest which contributes to maximum spoilage of the stored grains at the larval as well as the adult ...
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Annotation and Functional Analysis of a Unique Family of Bacteria-Like Genes in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
... The genome of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, is known to possess a unique family of bacteria-like genes (Lorenzen et al., 2008). Their original identifier, “DUF1703” (Domain of Unknown Function ...
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TOXICITY OF BOTANICAL AND FUNGAL EXTRACTS AGAINST RED FLOUR BEETLE Tribolium castaneum HERBST. (COLEOPTERA:TENEBRIONIDAE)
... Red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is a polyphagous pest affecting stored products worldwide, particularly in warmer climates (Angelini et ...
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Enhanced Activities of Metabolic Enzymes Associated with Insecticide Resistance in Red Flour Beetle (Tribolium castaneum Herbst)
... Red flour beetle (T. castaneum) is one of the major stored grain insect pests. T. castaneum has been report- ed to develop resistance against many of the synthetic chemical insecticides (Rahman and ...
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Investigation of the semiochemicals of confused flour beetle Tribolium confusum Jaquelin du Val and grain weevil Sitophilus granarius (L ) in stored wheat grain and flour
... both flour infested with the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum and wheat grain infested with the grain weevil, Sitophilus ...to flour infested by ...
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Genetic Linkage Maps of the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Based on Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes and Expressed Sequence Tags
... red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, based largely on sequences from bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) ends and untranslated regions from random ...
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Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... Photon absorption by visual pigments is the primary event in the conversion of light to a neuronal signal in ani- mal photoreceptor cells [1]. Visual pigments or rho- dopsins form by an association of retinal-based ...
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Enhancer identification and activity evaluation in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
... Evolution of cis-regulatory elements (such as enhancers) plays an important role in the production of diverse morphology. However, a mechanistic understanding is often limited by the absence of methods for studying ...
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Developmental coupling of larval and adult stages in a complex life cycle: insights from limb regeneration in the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
... diversification of species. The evolution of a morphologically distinct larval stage is thought to have enabled insects to occupy broader ecological niches and become the most diverse metazoan taxon, yet the extent to ...
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Woot, an Active Gypsy-Class Retrotransposon in the Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum, is Associated With a Recent Mutation
... A recently isolated, lethal mutation of the homeotic Abdominal gene of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum is associated with an insertion of a novel retrotransp[r] ...
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Effect of the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, combined with diatomaceous earth on the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Tenebrionidae: Coleoptera)
... red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Tenebrionidae: Coleoptera), is among the most destruc- tive insect pests of stored products all around the world (Mahroof and Hagstrum ...
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Divergence revealed by population crosses in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, examining post-copulatory female fecundity and attempting to understand the high level of copulations that do not result in sperm ...
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Quantitative Trait Loci for Susceptibility to Tapeworm Infection in the Red Flour Beetle
... red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) that serves as an intermediate host in its ...affected beetle susceptibility were identified in the two reciprocal ...of beetle susceptibility to the ...
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