Insect Molecular Biology

Virtual Issue - Resistance in herbivores - August 2010

Resistance in herbivores, August 2010
Edited by Linda M. Field and David O'Brochta

Herbivorous insects are constantly facing chemical threats that must be neutralized. These threats can come from chemicals synthesized by plants, chemicals applied to plants and chemicals applied directly to insects. In addition, chemical threats may come from microbes that insects encounter while feeding on plants. Understanding how insects successfully or unsuccessfully meet those threats is of continuing interest to entomologists. Molecular biological, genomic, biochemical and proteomic approaches to probing the details of resistance in herbivores are playing important roles and Insect Molecular Biology continues to be interested in serving as an outlet for that important research.

Novel genetic basis of field-evolved resistance to Bt toxins in Plutella xylostella. Insect Molecular Biology
S. W. Baxter, J.-Z. Zhao, L. J. Gahan, A. M. Shelton, B. E. Tabashnik and D. G. Heckel

Transcriptional response of Choristoneura fumiferana to sublethal exposure of Cry1Ab protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. Insect Molecular Biology
L. Meunier, G. Préfontaine, M. Van Munster, R. Brousseau and L. Masson

A novel cadherin-like gene from western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae), larval midgut tissue. Insect Molecular Biology
A. Sayed, E. R. Nekl, H. A. A. Siqueira, H.-C. Wang, R. H. Ffrench-Constant, M. Bagley and B. D. Siegfried

Altered gene expression in Choristoneura fumiferana and Manduca sexta in response to sublethal intoxication by Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab toxin. Insect Molecular Biology
M. Van Munster, G. Préfontaine, L. Meunier, M. Elias, A. Mazza, R. Brousseau and L. Masson

Evaluation of the role of CYP6B cytochrome P450s in pyrethroid resistant Australian Helicoverpa armigera. Insect Molecular Biology
Vladimir D. Grubor and David G. Heckel

The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit Md alpha 6 from Musca domestica is diversified via post-transcriptional modification. Insect Molecular Biology
J.-R. Gao, J. M. Deacutis and J. G. Scott

Transcriptional diversity and allelic variation in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Insect Molecular Biology
F. D. Rinkevich and J. G. Scott

Positional cloning of a cyromazine resistance gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology
Z. Chen, C. Robin, J. Damiano, J. Lydall, C. Lumb, K. Smith, A. Blasetti, P. J. Daborn, D. Heckel, J. A. McKenzie and P. Batterham

Molecular cloning of a GABA receptor subunit from Laodelphax striatella (Fallen) and patch clamp analysis of the homo-oligomeric receptors expressed in a Drosophila cell line. Insect Molecular Biology
K. Narusuye, T. Nakao, R. Abe, Y. Nagatomi, K. Hirase and Y. Ozoe

Targeting ie-1 gene by RNAi induces baculoviral resistance in lepidopteran cell lines and in transgenic silkworms. Insect Molecular Biology
S. Kanginakudru, C. Royer, S. V. Edupalli, A. Jalabert, B. Mauchamp, S. V. Prasad, G. Chavancy, P. Couble and J. Nagaraju

A deficit of detoxification enzymes: pesticide sensitivity and environmental response in the honeybee. Insect Molecular Biology
C. Claudianos, H. Ranson, R. M. Johnson, S. Biswas, M. A. Schuler, M. R. Berenbaum, R. Feyereisen and J. G. Oakeshott