Research Accomplishment Reports 2007

Impact of Hormone Research on Science and the Economy

B.A. Webb, S.R. Palli, N. Beckage
Department of Entomology

 

Project Description

This symposium project partially supported a symposium honoring the contributions of Dr. Lynn Riddiford to basic and applied entomology. This symposium was held in December 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society in Indianapolis, IN. The meeting was international in scope wiht representation from Asia, Europe and South America as well as the US. The symposium was well attended with 127 members in the audience when a count was taken midway through the symposium.

Impact

This symposium led to a proposal led for publication of a special issue of the journal of Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology which was accepted and published in 2007 (Volume 37:741-890). The PI's of this proposal served as guest editors for this special edition. There were 14 publications in this special issue and an introduction written by the PIs.

Publications

Rewitz KF, O'Connor MB, Glibert LI 2007. Molecular evolution of the insect Halloween family of cytochrome p450's; phylogeny gene organiztaion and functional characterization. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:741-753.

Karouzou M.V. et al. 2007. Drosophila cuticular proteins with the R&R consensus: annotation and classification with a new tool for discriminatng RR-1 and RR-2 sequences. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:754-760.

Truman JW and Riddiford LM 2007. The morphostatic actions of juvenile hormone. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:761-770.

Jones D and Jones G. 2007. Farnesoid secretions of dipteran ring glands. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:771-798.

Chen Z.,et al. 2007. Comparison of radioimmunoassay and liquid chromotography tandem mass spectrometry for determinationof juvenile hormone titers. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:799-807.

Kinjoh T, et al. 2007. Control of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in Bombyx mori: cloning of the enzymes in the mevalonate pathway and assessment of their developmental expresion in the corpora allata. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:808-817.

Sen SE, et al. 2007. Purification, properties and heteromeric association of type-1 and type-2 lepidopteran farnesyl diphosphate synthases. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:818:828.

Bai H, Ramaseshadri P and Palli SR 2007. Identification and characterization of juvenile hormone esterase gene freom the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:829-837.

Liu Z, Pal N and Bonning BC 2007. Potential ligand of Dm209, a putative juvenile hormone esterase binding protein of Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:830-846.

Tauchman SJ et al. 2007. Effects of stress on the hemolymph juvenile hormone binding titers of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:847-854.

Futahashi R and Fujiwara H 2007. Regulation of 20-hydroxyecdysone on the larval pigmentation and the expression of melanin synthesis enzymes and yellow gene or the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:855-864.

Dhadialla D et al. 2007. A photoaffinity, non-steroidal, ecdysone agonist, bisacylhydrazine compound, RH-131039: characterization of binding and functional activity. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:865-875.

Machado E et al. 2007 Prostaglandin signaling and ovarian follicle development in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:876-885.

Hardie J and Leckstein P 2007. Antibiotics, primary symbionts and wing polyphenism in three aphid species. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37:886-890.