Sentence examples for class of insect from inspiring English sources

N-tert-butyl-N,N′-diacylhydrazines, mimicking the action of 20-hydroxyecdysone to activate the ecdysone receptor, lead to lethal premature molting, thus constituting a class of insect growth regulators useful in crop protection.

The remaining 23 MdIr genes were regarded as members of the divergent class of insect Irs.

The epsilon class of insect GSTs has previously been implicated in conferring insecticide resistance in several insect species.

For example, nAChRs are targets of neonicotinoids [ 14, 15], a class of insect control chemicals which include imidacloprid with worldwide annual sales of approximately one billion US dollars [ 16].

Members of this family catalyze the conjugation of reduced glutathione to a variety of exogenous and endogenous hydrophobic electrophiles for the purpose of detoxification [ 38]. 56768 has closest homology with the Delta class of insect GSTs, and has 45 % identity with a mosquito Delta GST that has DDT dehydrochlorinase activity [ 39].

We recently cloned the full-length cDNA of ptr and compared the amino acid sequence identity of the encoded protein among sterol-sensing domain-containing proteins from different species of insects and vertebrates, finding that Ptr belongs to a divergent, previously uncharacterized class of insect transmembrane protein.

Unfortunately this particular class of insects can not be controlled by Bacillus thuringiensis insect control protein or any other established insect control agent.

The VKR proteins are largely represented in the class of insects, although the first two examples were discovered outside this class, in the trematode S. mansoni (the parasite responsible for schistosomiasis, the second most important tropical disease after malaria [41]) [6], and in the sea urchin S. purpuratus, and named SmVKR and SpVKR respectively.

As the first parasitic hymenopteran insect to have its genome sequenced [ 24], N. vitripennis provides a new resource for the identification of AMP genes in this class of insects in a genomic scale [ 25, 26].

As the first AMP repertoire of a parasitic wasp, our results offer a basic platform for further studying the immunological and evolutionary significances of these newly discovered AMP-like genes in this class of insects.

Pheromone-binding proteins (PBPs) represent a sub-class of insect odorant-binding proteins, particularly related in the detection of sex pheromones (Pelosi et al. 2006).