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Folding, misfolding, and regulation of intracellular traffic of G protein‐coupled receptors involved in the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background G protein‐coupled receptors are a large and functionally diverse family of membrane receptors involved in a number of biological processes. Like other proteins, G protein‐coupled receptors need to be properly folded in order to traffic to the plasma membrane and interact with agonist.
Alfredo Ulloa‐Aguirre, Ross C. Anderson, Teresa Zariñán, Rubén Gutiérrez‐Sagal, Eduardo Jardón‐Valadez, Claire L. Newton   +5 more
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Development and Reproduction of Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae): The Effect of Temperature, Origin and Food

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Nymphal development took longer at 25°C than 30°C, and the Greek N. tenuis population developed more slowly than the commercial population. Nymphs clearly preferred E. kuehniella eggs over Artemia sp. cysts when both were offered equally. Egg production increased at 30°C, while female longevity declined.
Eleni Yiacoumi, Sofoklis Flouris, Dimitrios Fytilis, Maria Gkamsizi, Nikos A. Kouloussis, Dimitrios S. Koveos   +5 more
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Genome‐wide and gene‐specific DNA methylation across developmental stages in Pogonomyrmex californicus: A socially polymorphic ant

Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.
Comparison between developmental stages (larvae, pupae, worker) in Pogonomyrmex californicus revealed significant stage‐specific differences in Gene Body Methylated frequencies. Methylation sites were highly correlated between WGBS and ONT in P. californicus Genome‐wide methylation was low (~3%) and highly clustered within gene bodies (GBM), especially
Tania Chavarria‐Pizarro, Mohammed Errbii, Janina Rinke, Lukas Schrader, Jürgen Gadau   +4 more
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Genome and transcriptome‐based identification and expression profiling of chemosensory gene families across developmental stages and tissues in Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.
The first draft genome of Sirex noctilio was produced. Fifteen S. noctilio transcriptomes were sequenced to study chemosensory gene expression patterns. SnocOR16 and SnocSNMP1 displayed tissue‐ and sex‐specific expression patterns. Abstract The Sirex woodwasp (Sirex noctilio; Hymenoptera: Siricidae) is among the most destructive invasive pests ...
Alisa Postma, Leandri Klynsmith, Tuan A. Duong, Jeremy Dean Allison, Werner Smidt, Robert M. Waterhouse, Peter Lesny, Jan Philip Oeyen, Malte Petersen, Sebastian Martin, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Tanja Ziesmann, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Lars Podsiadlowski, Martin P. A. Coetzee, Fourie Joubert, Bernard Slippers   +21 more
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Functional evolution of mammalian odorant receptors.

PLoS Genetics, 2012
The mammalian odorant receptor (OR) repertoire is an attractive model to study evolution, because ORs have been subjected to rapid evolution between species, presumably caused by changes of the olfactory system to adapt to the environment.
Kaylin A Adipietro, Joel D Mainland, Hiroaki Matsunami   +2 more
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Shifts in type 2 vomeronasal receptor expression during postnatal development in the lungfish olfactory organ

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Lungfish possess a lamellar OE and a primitive VNO called as a recess epithelium (RecE). Among the lungfish V2Rs expressed in both the lamellar OE and the RecE in small individuals, some became restricted to the RecE in large individuals. These results suggest functional separation between the lamellar OE and the RecE is still incomplete in juveniles ...
Shoko Nakamuta, Zicong Zhang, Masato Nikaido, Takuya Yokoyama, Yoshio Yamamoto, Nobuaki Nakamuta   +5 more
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Comparative transcriptomics and phylostratigraphy of Argentine ant odorant receptors.

PLoS ONE
Nestmate recognition in ants is regulated through the detection of cuticular hydrocarbons by odorant receptors (ORs) in the antennae. These ORs are crucial for maintaining colony cohesion that allows invasive ant species to dominate colonized ...
Mathew A Dittmann, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Michael Scharf, Brock A Harpur   +3 more
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Evaluation of the DREAM Technique for a High-Throughput Deorphanization of Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018
In the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, the majority of olfactory receptors mediating the detection of volatile chemicals found in their natural habitat have been functionally characterized (deorphanized) in vivo. In this process, receptors have been
Sarah Koerte, Ian W. Keesey, Mohammed A. Khallaf, Lucas Cortés Llorca, Ewald Grosse-Wilde, Bill S. Hansson, Markus Knaden   +6 more
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Antennal and abdominal transcriptomes reveal chemosensory gene families in the coconut hispine beetle, Brontispa longissima

Scientific Reports, 2017
Antennal and abdominal transcriptomes of males and females of the coconut hispine beetle Brontispa longissima were sequenced to identify and compare the expression patterns of genes involved in odorant reception and detection.
Shu-Ying Bin, Meng-Qiu Qu, Ke-Ming Li, Zheng-Qiang Peng, Zhong-Zhen Wu, Jin-Tian Lin   +5 more
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Conflicting adaptations in an inhibitory feedback circuit

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend We studied activity‐dependent adaptation in the fruit fly Drosophila’s memory centre, the mushroom body. Here, excitatory Kenyon cells (KCs) receive feedback inhibition from the anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron. When KCs are artificially overactivated for 24 h, both KCs and APL reduce their sensitivity to excitation (‘↓ Exc’,
Gregor A. Bergmann, Melissa W. Tan, Katie Greenin‐Whitehead, Philippe J. Fischer, Thomas C. Cozens, Andrew C. Lin   +5 more
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