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Baculovirus infection influences host protein expression in two established insect cell lines

Protein degradation in silkworm peritracheal athrocytes and its physiological role in metamorphosis

An insect multiligand recognition protein functions as an opsonin for the phagocytosis of microorganisms.

Biochemical properties of heterologously expressed and native adenylyl cyclases from the honeybee brain (Apis mellifera L.).

The origin of luciferase activity in Zophobas mealworm AMP/CoA-ligase (protoluciferase): luciferin stereoselectivity as a switch for the oxygenase activity.

Molecular characterization and expression pattern of four chemosensory proteins from diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae).

Evolution of insect development: to the hemimetabolous paradigm.

[Cloning and expression of fibrinolytic enzyme cDNA sequence from Eupolyphaga sinensis].

A defensin antimicrobial peptide from the venoms of Nasonia vitripennis

Cockroach allergens Per a 3 are oligomers

Characterization of the 5-HT1A receptor of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and involvement of serotonin in phototactic behavior.

Salivary gland thrombostasin isoforms differentially regulate blood uptake of horn flies fed on control- and thrombostasin-vaccinated cattle.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of cecropin B from Bombyx mori.

Structure of autophagy-related protein Atg8 from the silkworm Bombyx mori.

[Expression of the genes of adenosine deaminase, C-lectin and serpin in the salivary gland of Aedes albopictus].

The silkworm Green b locus encodes a quercetin 5-O-glucosyltransferase that produces green cocoons with UV-shielding properties.

Rab14 from Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) shows ATPase activity.

Is positive selection responsible for the evolution of a duplicate UV-sensitive opsin gene in Heliconius butterflies?

Isolation, expression analysis, and functional characterization of the first antidiuretic hormone receptor in insects.

Proteomics identification and annotation of proteins of a cell line of Bombyx mori, BmN cells.