Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

The majority of cuticular protein sequences identified to date from a diversity of arthropods
have a conserved region known as the Rebers and Riddiford Consensus (R&R Consensus) …

The cuticle of arthropods (jointed-limb animals), and especially of insects is, by biological
standards, a relatively simple composite. It is a single external layer of material forming the …

Many insect cuticular proteins include a 35–36 amino acid motif known as the R&R
consensus. The extensive conservation of this region led to the suggestion that it functions to …

Many kinds of cuticular proteins are found in a single insect species and their numbers and
features are diversified among insects. Because there are so many cuticular proteins and so …

Helicoidal composites have been found in shrimp club, lobster claw, beetle cuticle, crab
shell, scorpion pincer, and fish scale as a natural material. The helicoidal composite …

The recent demonstration that a plant virus could be retained on protein receptors located
exclusively in a small area inside the common duct at the tip of aphid maxillary stylets …

Proteins were extracted from the cuticle of mid-instar nymphs of locusts, Locusta migratoria,
and cockroaches, Blaberus craniifer. Seven proteins were purified from the locust extract …

Arthropod borne diseases cause significant human morbidity and mortality and, therefore,
efficient measures to control transmission of the disease agents would have great impact on …

Body shape determination represents a critical aspect of morphogenesis. In the course of
investigating body shape regulation in Drosophila, we have identified a dominant mutation …