The TRP channel superfamily was widely found in multiple species. They were involved many extrasensory perceptions and important for adapting to the environment. migratory locust one of worldwide agricultural pests due huge damage. In this study, we identified 13 genes genome. number LmTRP consistent with most insects. phylogenetic tree showed that could be divided into seven subfamilies. conse...

Behavioral plasticity is the most striking trait in locust phase transition. However, the genetic basis for behavioral plasticity in locusts is largely unknown. To unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying the behavioral phase change in the migratory locust Locusta migratoria, the gene expression patterns over the time courses of solitarization and gregarization were compared by oligonucleoti...

BACKGROUND Retroelements can successfully colonize eukaryotic genome through RNA-mediated transposition, and are considered to be some of the major mediators of genome size. The migratory locust Locusta migratoria is an insect with a large genome size, and its genome is probably subject to the proliferation of retroelements. An analysis of deep-sequencing transcriptome data will elucidate the s...

A lipid transfer particle (LTP) from the hemolymph of adult male locusts, Locusta migratoria, was isolated and purified. The locust LTP exhibited its capacity to catalyze the exchange of diacylglycerol between low density lipophorin (LDLp) and high density lipophorin (HDLp). Contrary to the LTP reported for the tobacco hornworm, M. sexta, the locust LTP appeared to lack the capacity to promote ...

The brain of the locust Schistocerca gregaria contains a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) that has similar properties to mammalian neuronal NOS. It catalyses the production of equimolar quantities of nitric oxide (NO) and citrulline from l-arginine in a Ca2+/calmodulin- and NADPH-dependent manner and is inhibited by the Nomega-nitro and Nomega-monomethyl analogues of l-arginine. In Western blots, an...

The difficulty lies not in new ideas, but in escaping from old ones. Preface The desert locust is an ancient problem. People in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia had to live and cope with it for many centuries. It is only with the development of chemical pesticides that man developed the belief he could solve this problem by adopting a strategy of war against nature. Spraying poisonous ...

Over the past decade, technological advances in experimental and animal tracking techniques have motivated a renewed theoretical interest in animal collective motion and, in particular, locust swarming. This review offers a comprehensive biological background followed by comparative analysis of recent models of locust collective motion, in particular locust marching, their settings, and underly...