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Nosema bombycis microRNA-like RNA 8 (Nb-milR8) Increases Fungal Pathogenicity by Modulating BmPEX16 Gene Expression in Its Host, Bombyx mori

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
The fungus Nosema bombycis causes significant economic losses via parasitism of an economically important insect. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in regulating host and parasite gene expression via mRNA degradation or by inhibiting protein ...
Zhanqi Dong, Ning Zheng, Congwu Hu, Boyuan Deng, Wenxuan Fang, Qin Wu, Peng Chen, Xuhua Huang, Na Gao, Cheng Lu, Minhui Pan   +10 more
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The NPC Families Mediate BmNPV Entry

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Baculovirus is a powerful tool for biological control in agriculture and foreign gene expression and delivery in insect and mammalian cells. Baculovirus enters host cells by multiple endocytic pathways; however, the current understanding of the Bombyx ...
Youpeng Fan, Jialing Bao, Xiaoyu Fu, Pengfei Wu, Jingya Chen, Yan Huang, Junhong Wei, Guoqing Pan, Chunfeng Li, Zeyang Zhou   +9 more
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Morphology and Transcriptome Analysis of Nosema bombycis Sporoplasm and Insights into the Initial Infection of Microsporidia

mSphere, 2020
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that infect a wide variety of host organisms, including humans. The sporoplasm is the initial stage of microsporidian infection and proliferation, but its morphological and molecular characteristics are ...
Qiang He, Jian Luo, Jin-Zhi Xu, Chun-xia Wang, Xian-zhi Meng, Guo-Qing Pan, Tian Li, Ze-Yang Zhou   +7 more
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Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (BmNPV) Induces Host Cell Autophagy to Benefit Infection

Viruses, 2017
Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus (BmNPV) is an important pathogen of silkworms. Despite extensive studies in recent decades, the interaction between BmNPV and host cells is still not clearly understood.
La Wang, Qin Xiao, Xiao-Lin Zhou, Yan Zhu, Zhan-Qi Dong, Peng Chen, Min-Hui Pan, Cheng Lu   +7 more
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Polytheism Tendency in the Trend of Integration of the Three Major Religions: Worship of Silkworm Deity Art of Medieval China

Religions, 2022
A silkworm deity was a Trade God worshipped by the court and the folk, and was also a spiritual symbol of sericulturists in medieval China. Images of the silkworm deity in ancient Chinese art are important relics of material heritage for studying culture
Fei Ju
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RANBP10 promotes glioblastoma progression by regulating the FBXW7/c-Myc pathway

Cell Death and Disease, 2021
RAN binding protein 10 (RANBP10), a ubiquitously expressed and evolutionarily conserved protein, as a RAN-GTP exchange factor (GEF) to regulate several factors involved in cellular progression.
Jianbing Hou, Yudong Liu, Pan Huang, Yutao Wang, Dakun Pei, Ruoyue Tan, Yundong Zhang, Hongjuan Cui   +7 more
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FibH Gene Complete Sequences (FibHome) Revealed Silkworm Pedigree

Insects, 2023
The highly repetitive and variable fibroin heavy chain (FibH) gene can be used as a silkworm identification; however, only a few complete FibH sequences are known. In this study, we extracted and examined 264 FibH gene complete sequences (FibHome) from a
Wei Lu, Tong Zhang, Quan Zhang, Na Zhang, Ling Jia, Sanyuan Ma, Qingyou Xia   +6 more
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Integrated qPCR and Staining Methods for Detection and Quantification of Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei in Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Microorganisms, 2020
Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is an obligate, intracellular, spore-forming parasite, which mainly infects the gastrointestinal tract of shrimp. It significantly hinders the growth of shrimp, which causes substantial economic losses in farming.
Lijun Wang, Qing Lv, Yantong He, Ruocheng Gu, Bingqian Zhou, Jie Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Guoqing Pan, Mengxian Long, Zeyang Zhou   +9 more
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Circadian regulation of night feeding and daytime detoxification in a formidable Asian pest Spodoptera litura

Communications Biology, 2021
Zhang et al. show that the circadian gene coupling between night feeding and day detoxification is regulated through the binding of circadian elements to E-boxes in Spodoptera litura, one of the most difficult Asian agricultural pests to control ...
Jiwei Zhang, Shenglong Li, Wanshun Li, Zhiwei Chen, Huizhen Guo, Jianqiu Liu, Yajing Xu, Yingdan Xiao, Liying Zhang, Kallare P. Arunkumar, Guy Smagghe, Qingyou Xia, Marian R. Goldsmith, Makio Takeda, Kazuei Mita   +14 more
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Flavones Produced by Mulberry Flavone Synthase Type I Constitute a Defense Line against the Ultraviolet-B Stress

Plants, 2020
Flavones, one of the largest classes of flavonoids in plants, have a variety of bioactivities and participate in the resistance response of plants to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Han Li, Dong Li, Zhen Yang, Qiwei Zeng, Yiwei Luo, Ningjia He   +5 more
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