Insect Viruses
Regions identity between the genome of vertebrates and non retroviral families of insect viruses
... of insect viruses Baculoviridae: Choristoneura fumiferana DEF MNPV [GenBank:NC_005137]; Agrotis segetum granulovirus [GenBank:NC_005839]; Helicoverpa armigera NPV G4 [GenBank:NC_002654]; Orgyia ...
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The Structure of Sindbis Virus Produced from Vertebrate and Invertebrate Hosts as Determined by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
... structure. Insect cells lack the enzyme sialyltransferase, and thus, the insect viruses produced are missing the terminal sialylation found in the vertebrate-grown virus (1, ...
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Kelp Fly Virus: a Novel Group of Insect Picorna-Like Viruses as Defined by Genome Sequence Analysis and a Distinctive Virion Structure
... and insect cells (3, ...from insect hosts through gene capture ...and insect viruses was unable to clearly resolve an evolutionary origin for the KFV domain, so that its ancestry, like that of ...
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Metagenomic Analysis of Viruses from Bat Fecal Samples Reveals Many Novel Viruses in Insectivorous Bats in China
... novel viruses that could not have been identified by traditional virus culture methods in samples collected from water, humans, and animals (5, 11–13, 24, ...phages, insect viruses, and mammalian ...
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Physicochemical Properties of Tipula Iridescent Virus
... If the residues are calculated on the The properties of TIV are in many respects basis of a minimal molecular weight of 30,460, similar to those of other iridescent insect viruses, the v[r] ...
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Characterization of a Novel Flavivirus from Mosquitoes in Northern Europe That Is Related to Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses of the Tropics
... These insect flaviviruses do not appear to infect vertebrate cells and are not associated with human or animal ...these insect viruses to be character- ized (5, 40), Although CFAV was originally ...
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Emergence and Evolution of H10 Subtype Influenza Viruses in Poultry in China
... influenza viruses in China. The diver- sity of avian influenza viruses is maintained primarily in the classic gene pool viruses of wild waterfowl (green ...of viruses, favoring the emergence ...
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History of forest insect investigations in British Columbia II. The Forest Insect and Disease Survey in the Pacific Region
... The combined Forest Insect and Disease Survey (FIDS) originated with the 1962 unification of the pre-existing Forest Insect Survey and the Forest Disease Survey, F[r] ...
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Insect Transmission of Plant Pathogens: a Systems Biology Perspective
... circulative viruses into aphid tissues. A combination of whole-insect proteome analysis, confocal microscopy with fluorescently labeled antibodies of aphid gut tissue, and enzyme activity assays was used to ...
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Comparative evolutionary analysis of insects using mitochondrial genes
... GC content was higher in CO1 than the others, which was expected from the protein coding gene. Within a long region of genomic sequence, genes are often characterized by having a higher GC-content in contrast to the ...
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Biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic nematodes against termite
... spp. and Photorhabdus spp. (Forst et al., 1997).The infective juvenile stage of the nematode is a free living stage that remains in the soil until it can invade the body of a potential host on contact . After infection ...
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Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii
... all insect species. While some species are horizontally transmitted insect pathogens or commensals in the gut, other lineages exhibit transovarial vertical transmission from mother to ...
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Diminished UV radiation reduces the spread and population density of Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) [Hemiptera: Aphididae] in lettuce crops
... for insect development; whereas in spring, to a great- er extent in 2008, minimum temperatures below aphid developmental thresholds were often record- ed (T min 2008 = ...
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The Effects of Climate Change on Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Soybean.
... Future climate change is predicted to include increases in global temperature and shifts in global precipitation patterns that will result in increased frequency and severity of drought. These abiotic environmental ...
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Persistence of the insect growth regulator Dimilin® in brackish water: a laboratory evaluation using larvae of an estuarine crab as indicator
... ABSTRACT: The persistence of Dimilin | (diflubenzuron), an insect growth regulator which inter- feres with chitin formation in the cuticle of insect larvae, has been studied [r] ...
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Mechanical specializations of insect ears
... perceive insect hearing organs as simplistic compared to other animals, the mechanisms involved can be ...some insect hearing systems, as viewed from a mechanical ...the insect ear, the mechanical ...
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The purification of insect-transmitted plant viruses
... Too little material has been available for attempts to isolate a nucleic acid from this virus, but from its general behaviour it seems probable that this preparation consists essentially[r] ...
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The glucosinolates myrosinase system: From chemistry, biology to ecology
... Many insect herbivores have come to specialize on glucosinolates- containing plants and often use these compounds as cues for feeding or oviposition (Gabrys and Tjallingii 2002; Halkier and Gershenzon 2006; ...
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Relative Resistance of Cross Bt Cotton Varieties against Sucking Complex
... major insect pest of cotton and every year considerable economic losses happened due to its presence in cotton fields throughout the ...the insect population was slightly lower ...
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EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TRIPLE-LAYER HERMETIC BIODEGRADABLE BAGS FOR BIO-RATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF AFLATOXINS IN STORED MAIZE
... Mycotoxins are structurally diverse group of mostly small molecular weight compounds produce mainly by the metabolism of some filamentous fungi in the presence of suitable temperature, moisture and relative humidity ...
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