Angela Douglas and Gavin Thomas (York, UK) organized a symposium April 12, 2011 at the Spring Conference of The Society for General Microbiology MORE >>
April 7, 2011 Angela Douglas collaborates with colleagues at Lyon, France to generate an enriched BioCyc database for metabolic reconstruction of the pea aphid. MORE >>
Angela Douglas contributed to a lecture on post-genomic research on
insect-bacterial symbioses to a workshop on the Genome Biology of Corals
and their Relatives. MORE >>
March 18, 2011 Angela Douglas and Calum Russell analyze the protein complement of the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera and the specialized aphid cell, the bacteriocyte, in which the bacteria are housed. MORE >>
March 11, 2011 Angela Douglas and colleagues at University of York, UK establish the central role of the aphid host as a determinant of the variation in essential amino acid synthesis by the symbiotic bacterium Buchner. MORE >>
February 23, 2011 Angela Douglas and Sophie Bouvaine conclude that GroEL-virus interactions are unlikely to contribute to virus transmission by aphids. MORE >>
Rinkevich, F. D., Chen, M., Shelton, A. M. and Scott, J. G. 2010. Transcripts of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit gene Pxylα6 with premature stop codons are associated with spinosad resistance in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella. Invert. Neurosci. 10: 25-33. MORE >>
Hardstone, M. C., Komagata, O., Kasai, S., Tomita, T. and Scott, J. G. 2010. Use of isogenic strains indicates CYP9M10 is linked to permethrin resistance in Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, Insect Molec. Biol. 19: 717-726. MORE >>
Seminars in insect science, including insect physiology and
toxicology, are offered by several departments. For more information,
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