Hemiptera

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Cross-bridge number, position, and angle in target zones of cryofixed isometrically active insect flight muscle. 
  • Curtovirus-cucurbit interaction: acquisition host plays a role in leafhopper transmission in a host-dependent manner. 
  • Electron tomography of insect flight muscle in rigor and AMPPNP at 23 degrees C. 
  • Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) infestation affects water and carbon relations of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana). 
  • Identification of regions of the Beet mild curly top virus (family Geminiviridae) capsid protein involved in systemic infection, virion formation and leafhopper transmission. 
  • Image reconstruction using electron micrographs of insect flight muscle. Use of thick transverse sections to supplement data from tilted thin longitudinal sections. 
  • Molecular modeling of averaged rigor crossbridges from tomograms of insect flight muscle. 
  • Rigor crossbridge structure in tilted single filament layers and flared-X formations from insect flight muscle. 
  • Self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces by self-propelled jumping condensate. 
  • Thick myofilament mass determination by electron scattering measurements with the scanning transmission electron microscope. 
  • Three-dimensional image reconstruction of insect flight muscle. I. The rigor myac layer. 
  • Three-dimensional image reconstruction of insect flight muscle. II. The rigor actin layer. 
  • Three-dimensional structure of nucleotide-bearing crossbridges in situ: oblique section reconstruction of insect flight muscle in AMPPNP at 23 degrees C. 
  • Tomographic 3D reconstruction of quick-frozen, Ca2+-activated contracting insect flight muscle. 
  • Tomographic three-dimensional reconstruction of insect flight muscle partially relaxed by AMPPNP and ethylene glycol. 
  • Toxicity of a formulation of the insecticide indoxacarb to the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae), and the big-eyed bug, Geocoris punctipes (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). 
  • Two attached non-rigor crossbridge forms in insect flight muscle. 
  • Two attached non-rigor crossbridge forms. 
  • Two insulin receptors determine alternative wing morphs in planthoppers. 
  • Ultrastructural changes accompanying secretion and cell death in the molting glands of an insect (Oncopeltus). 
  • X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy from Lethocerus flight muscle partially relaxed by adenylylimidodiphosphate and ethylene glycol. 
  • X-ray diffraction indicates that active cross-bridges bind to actin target zones in insect flight muscle.