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Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. [PDF]

Insect Biochem Mol Biol, 2016
Manduca sexta, known as the tobacco hornworm or Carolina sphinx moth, is a lepidopteran insect that is used extensively as a model system for research in insect biochemistry, physiology, neurobiology, development, and immunity.
Kanost MR, Arrese EL, Cao X, Chen YR, Chellapilla S, Goldsmith MR, Grosse-Wilde E, Heckel DG, Herndon N, Jiang H, Papanicolaou A, Qu J, Soulages JL, Vogel H, Walters J, Waterhouse RM, Ahn SJ, Almeida FC, An C, Aqrawi P, Bretschneider A, Bryant WB, Bucks S, Chao H, Chevignon G, Christen JM, Clarke DF, Dittmer NT, Ferguson LCF, Garavelou S, Gordon KHJ, Gunaratna RT, Han Y, Hauser F, He Y, Heidel-Fischer H, Hirsh A, Hu Y, Jiang H, Kalra D, Klinner C, König C, Kovar C, Kroll AR, Kuwar SS, Lee SL, Lehman R, Li K, Li Z, Liang H, Lovelace S, Lu Z, Mansfield JH, McCulloch KJ, Mathew T, Morton B, Muzny DM, Neunemann D, Ongeri F, Pauchet Y, Pu LL, Pyrousis I, Rao XJ, Redding A, Roesel C, Sanchez-Gracia A, Schaack S, Shukla A, Tetreau G, Wang Y, Xiong GH, Traut W, Walsh TK, Worley KC, Wu D, Wu W, Wu YQ, Zhang X, Zou Z, Zucker H, Briscoe AD, Burmester T, Clem RJ, Feyereisen R, Grimmelikhuijzen CJP, Hamodrakas SJ, Hansson BS, Huguet E, Jermiin LS, Lan Q, Lehman HK, Lorenzen M, Merzendorfer H, Michalopoulos I, Morton DB, Muthukrishnan S, Oakeshott JG, Palmer W, Park Y, Passarelli AL, Rozas J, Schwartz LM, Smith W, Southgate A, Vilcinskas A, Vogt R, Wang P, Werren J, Yu XQ, Zhou JJ, Brown SJ, Scherer SE, Richards S, Blissard GW.   +113 more
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Tobacco Hornworm Manduca sexta (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) [PDF]

EDIS, 2017
The tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.), is a common pest of plants in the family Solanaceae, which includes tobacco, tomato, pepper, eggplant, and various ornamentals and weeds (del Campo and Renwick 1999).
Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman   +1 more
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The Manduca sexta serpinome: Analysis of serpin genes and proteins in the tobacco hornworm. [PDF]

Insect Biochem Mol Biol, 2018
Members of the serpin superfamily of proteins occur in animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and some viruses. They adopt a variety of physiological functions, including regulation of immune system, modulation of apoptosis, hormone transport and acting as ...
Li M, Christen JM, Dittmer NT, Cao X, Zhang X, Jiang H, Kanost MR.   +6 more
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Co-expression of Dorsal and Rel2 Negatively Regulates Antimicrobial Peptide Expression in the Tobacco Hornworm Manduca sexta. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2016
Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) plays an essential role in regulation of innate immunity. In mammals, NF-κB factors can form homodimers and heterodimers to activate gene expression.
Zhong X, Rao XJ, Yi HY, Lin XY, Huang XH, Yu XQ.   +5 more
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Immune Defense Varies within an Instar in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta. [PDF]

Physiol Biochem Zool, 2015
Research on how insect immunity changes with age as insects develop within an instar, or larval developmental stage, is limited and contradictory. Insects within an instar are preparing for the next developmental stage, which may involve changes in ...
Booth K, Cambron L, Fisher N, Greenlee KJ.   +3 more
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Annotation and expression analysis of cuticular proteins from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. [PDF]

Insect Biochem Mol Biol, 2015
The insect cuticle is a unique material that covers the exterior of the animal as well as lining the foregut, hindgut, and tracheae. It offers protection from predators and desiccation, defines body shape, and serves as an attachment site for internal ...
Dittmer NT, Tetreau G, Cao X, Jiang H, Wang P, Kanost MR.   +5 more
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Serine Protease Networks Mediate Immune Responses in Extra-Embryonic Tissues of Eggs in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta [PDF]

Journal of Innate Immunity, 2022
The melanization and Toll pathways, regulated by a network of serine proteases and noncatalytic serine protease homologs (SPHs), have been investigated mostly in adult and larval insects. However, how these innate immune reactions are regulated in insect
Tisheng Shan, Yang Wang, Neal T. Dittmer, Michael R. Kanost, Haobo Jiang   +4 more
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Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) caterpillars as a novel host model for the study of fungal virulence and drug efficacy [PDF]

Virulence, 2020
The two leading yeast pathogens of humans, Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans, cause systemic infections in >1.4 million patients worldwide with mortality rates approaching 75%.
Naomi Lyons, Isabel Softley, Andrew Balfour, Carolyn Williamson, Heath E. O’Brien, Amol C. Shetty, Vincent M. Bruno, Stephanie Diezmann   +7 more
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Standardized methods for rearing a moth larva, Manduca sexta, in a laboratory setting. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The larval tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, has been used in a laboratory setting for physiological studies and for pathogen virulence studies. This moth offers a much larger size than the commonly used wax moth (Galleria mellonella), and it can thus be ...
Emma K Spencer, Craig R Miller, James J Bull   +2 more
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Supply-side constraints are insufficient to explain the ontogenetic scaling of metabolic rate in the tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2012
Explanations for the hypoallometric scaling of metabolic rate through ontogeny generally fall into two categories: supply-side constraints on delivery of oxygen, or decreased mass-specific intrinsic demand for oxygen.
Callier V, Nijhout HF.
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