Red 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
... Selfish genetic elements (SGEs) have been found in a huge variety of taxa, but despite decades of study by evolutionary biologists, the origins, mechanisms and population- level impacts of these elements are still ...
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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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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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Comparative bioassay of silver nanoparticles and malathion on infestation of red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
... major beetle which infests the stored ...called red flour ...this beetle is necessary to prevent eco- nomic ...controlling red flour beetle, but now, it is not so ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Genetic Linkage Maps of the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Based on Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes and Expressed Sequence Tags
... the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, based largely on sequences from bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) ends and untranslated regions from random ...
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Divergence revealed by population crosses in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... There is growing interest in the potential for population divergence (and hence speciation) to be driven by co-evolutionary arms races due to conflicts of interest between the sexes over matings and investment in ...
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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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Comparative Insecticidal Activity of Mentha pulegium L and Thymus Capitatus Hoff Et Link Essential Oils against the Red Flour Beetle: Tribolium Castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
... This research deals with comparative investigation on the chemical composition and fumigant potential of M. pulegium and T. capitatus essential oils from Tunisia. Results underlined the powerful insecticidal activity of ...
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Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps
... the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has been developed into a powerful model organism suited for the study of short germ development, embryonic head and leg development, metamorphosis, cuticle ...
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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)
... An assay was designed to evaluate the efficacy of each entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana , and diatomaceous (DE) and their combinations at concentrations of 1 × 10 6 and 1 × 10 8 conidia kg − 1 of wheat and 200 ...
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Quantitative Trait Loci for Susceptibility to Tapeworm Infection in the Red Flour Beetle
... the 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 ...
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BIOCHEMICAL ABNORMALITIES INDUCED BY ABAMECTIN IN SIXTH INSTAR LARVAE OF THE RED FLOUR BEETLE, TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM (HERBST)
... larvae of Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) treated with emamectin benzoate, abamectin and spinosad (Megahed et al., 2013). Ghoneim et al. (2013) reported effects of feeding on different host plants, viz., Vicia faba L. ...
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Transcriptome sequencing reveals maelstrom as a novel target gene of the terminal system in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... short-germ beetle Tribolium, the function of the terminal system appears to be rather different, as the pathway promotes axis elongation and, in addition, is required for patterning the extra-embryonic serosa at ...
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Comparative gene expression supports the origin of the incisor and molar process from a single endite in the mandible of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... In the developing embryo, the mandible has an inner and outer lobe that are likely to develop into the incisor and molar processes of the larval mandible; these two lobes are commonly held to be derived from separate ...
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The Efficiency of Using Ozone Gas and Heat to Control Larvae and Adult Stage of Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) F. A. Sabeat
... [14] Falah, A. Sabeat; and Saadi, H. Sabr. 2015. Evaluation the Efficacy of Ozone and High Temperature to Control Egges and Pupae Stages Laboratory for Hairy Grain Beetle (khapra) Trogoderma granarium Everts ...
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