(1) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(2) We detail the fatty acid compositions of last larval instars of two lepidopterans, Spodoptera frugiperda and Trichoplusia ni, two tissues from T. ni, a cell line derived from each species and the respective larval and cell culture media.
(3) toxins having activities specific to lepidopteran species showed that several domains were highly homologous.
(4) Late stationary phase Bacillus megaterium cells harboring the cloned B. thuringiensis cryBI gene contained large aggregates of the P2 protein, and the cells were highly toxic to both lepidopteran and dipteran larvae.
(5) The effect of using three different lepidopteran cell lines in this assay for AcMNPV is also described.
(6) The chromatin of the lepidopteran Ephestia kuehniella was digested by micrococcal nuclease, DNase I and S1-nuclease combined with DNase I pretreatment.
(7) kurstaki were compared against four species of defoliating forest lepidopterans in diet-incorporation assays.
(8) Mutagenesis has been used to investigate the toxicity and specificity of a larvicidal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis aizawai IC1 that is toxic to both lepidoptera and diptera and differs by only three residues from a monospecific lepidopteran toxin from B. thuringiensis berliner.
(9) The lepidopteran-specific preparation (trypsin-treated protoxin containing 58 and 55 kDa polypeptides) bound to two membrane proteins in the lepidopteran cells but none in the dipteran cells.
(10) These acylpolyamines instantly paralyze lepidopteran larvae following injection.
(11) A persistent infection by a baculovirus-like particle was found in the established lepidopteran (Heliothis zea) cell line, IMC-HZ-1.
(12) This finding suggests the existence of a new type of juvenile peptide hormone in lepidopteran insects.
(13) Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus of lepidopteran insects.
(14) Tolerance for such change is attributed to the holokinetic organisation of lepidopteran chromosomes.
(15) A number of additional granulin and lepidopteran polyhedrin sequences will certainly be forthcoming because of the ease with which these genes are identified by cross-hybridization with available related probes.
(16) These coleopteran proteins also showed some sequential homology but no immunological cross-reactivity with storage proteins from the lepidopterans Galleria mellonella and Heliothis virescens.
(17) The previously unreported format, termed affinity-amplified immunoassay (AAIA), was successfully used for quantitative monitoring of low levels of the esterase in dilute hemolymph and egg homogenates from various lepidopteran insect species, as well as for detection of the native and mutant forms of the enzyme obtained in a recombinant baculovirus expression system.
(18) Cell lines established from the Lepidopteran insect Spodoptera frugiperda (e.g., Sf9) are used routinely as hosts for the expression of foreign proteins by baculovirus vectors.
(19) The junctional structures present between the midgut cells of 3 lepidopteran caterpillars have been examined using freeze-etching, conventional staining and lanthanum tracer techniques.
(20) Both CAPs were present in the pharate adult VNC of several other Lepidopteran species.
Lepidopterous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, hemolymph of identically treated lepidopterous larvae (Manduca, Helioverpa [= Heliothis]) contained degradation products but no intact toxin.
(2) Mild cases of lepidopterism will resolve spontaneously; systemic corticosteroids may aid in the treatment of more serious cases.
(3) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(4) More emphasis in research was given to some lepidopterous cotton pests and few other species.
(5) Lepidopterism is the term used to describe the aggregate adverse medical effects resulting from contact with adult or larval forms of butterflies and moths.
(6) Five of six Baculovirus species studied induce cytoplasmic and nuclear fibrous sheets, observed by electron microscopy, within infected cells of lepidopterous.
(7) Although Hylesia moths do not occur in the United States, primary care physicians and dermatologists, especially those located in port cities, should be aware of cutaneous lepidopterism caused by Hylesia moths.
(8) Urticating moths (genus Hylesia and Anaphae) protect their eggs and young caterpillars with urticating hairs, thus it is very ambiguous to label erucism as the contact dermatitis produced by caterpillar production or Lepidopterism as the contact dermatitis caused by moth urticating hairs.
(9) Spores of Bacillus thuringiensis contain a toxin active against lepidopterous larvae.
(10) These compounds are the largest pheromones isolated thus far from a lepidopterous species.
(11) A scanning electron microscope study has enabled an explanation as to why the brown-tail moth provokes Lepidopterism.
(12) C. eustrigata is not the only adult lepidopterous parasite of mammals.
(13) Comparative studies were performed on the role of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) in juvenile hormone (JH) biosynthesis using several lepidopterous and nonlepidopterous insects.
(14) The larval fat body is therefore the main site of calmodulin activity in this lepidopterous larva.
(15) Imago of Tenebrio, Dermestes (Coleoptera) and Lepidopterous caterpillars Pieris and Galleria were observed for the general physiology of the cryptonephric Malpighian tubules.
(16) To determine the possibility of plasmid transfer occurring between strains of Bacillus thuringiensis in infected lepidopterous larvae, Galleria mellonella and Spodoptera littoralis were infected with two or more strains of B. thuringiensis and the resulting bacteria from the dead insects were examined for plasmid transfer.
(17) Histamine, histamine-releasing substances, kinin activators, and other as yet undefined proteins are responsible for cutaneous, cardiovascular, neurologic, and constitutional signs and symptoms of lepidopterism.
(18) The brown-tail moth only provokes Lepidopterism via a transmission of the urticating hairs of its caterpillar.