Recent findings in evolution and function of insect innexins

Calcium Flashes Orchestrate the Wound Inflammatory Response through DUOX Activation and Hydrogen Peroxide Release

(2013) William Razzell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Innexins Ogre and Inx2 are required in glial cells for normal postembryonic development of the Drosophila central nervous system

(2013) C. E. Holcroft et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Ultrastructural and genomic characterization of a second banchine polydnavirus confirms the existence of shared features within this ichnovirus lineage

(2013) A. Djoumad et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

The i5K Initiative: Advancing Arthropod Genomics for Knowledge, Human Health, Agriculture, and the Environment

(2013)   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

A Role for Innexin2 and Innexin3 Proteins from Spodoptera litura in Apoptosis

(2013) Tian Liu et al.   PLoS One

Innexin 3, a New Gene Required for Dorsal Closure in Drosophila Embryo

(2013) Fabrizio Giuliani et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary analyses of gap junction protein families

(2012) Federico Abascal et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

A cellular network of dye-coupled glia associated with the embryonic central complex in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria

(2012) George S. Boyan et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Rescue of Notch signaling in cells incapable of GDP-L-fucose synthesis by gap junction transfer of GDP-L-fucose in Drosophila

(2012) T. Ayukawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellular basis for singing motor pattern generation in the field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatusDeGeer)

(2012) Stefan Schöneich et al.   Brain and Behavior

Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life

(2011) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Deep sequencing-based transcriptome analysis of Plutella xylostella larvae parasitized by Diadegma semiclausum

(2011) Kayvan Etebari et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Heterotypic Gap Junctions between Two Neurons in the Drosophila Brain Are Critical for Memory

(2011) Chia-Lin Wu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Characterization of Nonjunctional Hemichannels in Caterpillar Cells

(2011) Kaijun Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Functional Interactions between Polydnavirus and Host Cellular Innexins

(2011) N. K. Marziano et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Knockdown of Midgut Genes by dsRNA-Transgenic Plant-Mediated RNA Interference in the Hemipteran Insect Nilaparvata lugens

(2011) Wenjun Zha et al.   PLoS One

Silencing of Aphid Genes by dsRNA Feeding from Plants

(2011) Marco Pitino et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic and bioinformatic analysis of gap junction-related proteins, innexins, pannexins and connexins

(2010) Daisuke Fushiki et al.   BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH-TOKYO

The impact on microtubule network of a bracovirus IκB-like protein

(2010) Serena Duchi et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

RNA interference in Lepidoptera: An overview of successful and unsuccessful studies and implications for experimental design

(2010) Olle Terenius et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Analysis of Dicyemid Mesozoans (Phylum Dicyemida) From Innexin Amino Acid Sequences: Dicyemids Are Not Related to Platyhelminthes

(2010) Takahito G. Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Analysis of Virion Structural Components Reveals Vestiges of the Ancestral Ichnovirus Genome

(2010) Anne-Nathalie Volkoff et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Molecular Characterization, Localization, and Distribution of Innexins in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2009) Sun Mee Hong et al.   MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY

The origin and evolution of arthropods

(2009) Graham E. Budd et al.   NATURE

Polydnaviruses of Braconid Wasps Derive from an Ancestral Nudivirus

(2009) A. Bezier et al.   SCIENCE

Gap junctions in the ovary of Drosophila melanogaster: localization of innexins 1, 2, 3 and 4 and evidence for intercellular communication via innexin-2 containing channels

(2008) Johannes Bohrmann et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

TheDrosophilaInnexin7 Gap Junction Protein Is Required for Development of the Embryonic Nervous System

(2008) Katinka Ostrowski et al.   CELL COMMUNICATION AND ADHESION

Molecular Mechanism of Rectification at Identified Electrical Synapses in the Drosophila Giant Fiber System

(2008) Pauline Phelan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

RNA interference in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes through ingestion of double-stranded RNA

(2008) Xuguo Zhou et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Innexin genes and gap junction proteins in the locust frontal ganglion

(2008) Sarit Anava et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Gap junctions in Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti

(2008) X.-H. Weng et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY