House cricket

Migula, P., A. Kafel, A. Kedziorski, and M. Nakonieczny. 1989. Combined and separate effects of cadmium, lead and zinc on growth and feeding in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). Biol. Bratislava 44 911-921. 

Figure 2 represented a log-probit plot of the observed inhibition of purified bovine erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase as a function of concentration for several of the transformation products of aminocarb. The observation that these inhibition curves are parallel suggests a similar mechanism of interaction for the various derivatives. The parameter I5f. (the concentration of inhibitor required to achieve 50% inhibition oi the enzyme activity) for each of the inhibitors were calculated and are recorded in Table 1. These values are reported relative to the parent compound aminocarb = 1. Also included in Table 1 are the relative toxicities of several of these products to house crickets (Acheta domesticus). It had been our intention to develop bioassay tests using the target insect itself, the eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana). However, spray tower results were quite variable and it was considered that genetic variability of the stock culture made the production of uniform test batches difficult to achieve. Using the house crickets, an LD q of 130-155 ppm for aminocarb standard was observed over the course of more than 25 bioassays. Also included in Table 1 are observations by Abdel-Wahab and Casida (19) using human plasma or house fly head cholinesterases. 

While the vast majority of alkenes reported on the surface of insects are straight-chain molecules, there have been a few reports of methyl-branched alkenes. Warthen and Uebel (1980) found (Z)-2-methyl-24-hexatriacontene in the hydrocarbons of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. Carlson and Schlein (1991) reported 19,23-dimethyltriacont-l-ene and other homologs in tsetse flies. Howard et al. (1990) found a homologous series of... 

Warthen, J.D. Jr. and Uebel, E.C. (1980). Comparison of the unsaturated cuticular hydrocarbons of male and female house crickets, Acheta domesticus (L.)... 

Biochemical and molecular characterizaton of house cricket (Acheta domesticus, Orthoptera Gryllidae) Delta 9 desaturase. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol., 32, 1731-1740. 

Figure 9.8 Microsomal epoxidase activity in female house crickets during development. Arrows indicate molts. (Adapted from Benke, G.M. and Wilkinson, C.F., Pestic. Biochcm. Physiol., 1,19,1971.)...

Fig. 2. Alignment of apoLp-lII sequences. The amino acid sequences of apoLp-IlI from Acheta domesticus (Ad, house cricket), Derobrachus geminatus (Dg, palo verde beetle), Locusta migratoria (Lm), and Manduca sexto (Ms) were aligned by the method of Feng and Doolittle (1987). The positions of the five helices in the L. migratoria apoLp-III are indicated. (e) Conserved residues (o) hydrophobic residues.

Acheta domesticus (Linnaeus) house cricket nymph, adult GR 113... 

The (myo) kinin family of peptides is especially a very interesting one, because its members have two very different functional activities in insects. The first members of this family were originally isolated on the basis of stimulation of the cockroach hindgut in vitro from extracts of whole heads of L. maderae [151]. This species contains 8 isoforms of kinins. Shortly after their first isolation, it was reported that these kinins also stimulate diuretic activity of isolated Malpighian tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti [175], This function of kinins has now been shown regularly in conspecific diuretic assays with a number of other insect species. To date, the structure of kinins (see Table 5) have been fully elucidated in insects from the American cockroach (8 isoforms), the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (5 isoforms), the migratory locust (1 isoform), the mosquitoes, Culex salinarius and A. 

Benke, G.M., Wilkinson, C.F., 1971. Microsomal oxidation in the house cricket, Acheta domesticu.i (L.). Pesticide Biochem. Physiol. 1, 19-31. 

Gaylor MO, Harvey E, Hale RC. House crickets can accumulate polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) directly from polyurethane foam common in consumer products. Chemosphere 2012 86 500-505. 

Sexton, O. J. and Hess, E. H. (1968) A pheromone-like dispersant affecting the local distribution of the European house cricket, Acheta domestica. Biol. Bull., 134, 490-502. 

Whiting, P., and Dinan, L. (1988). The occurrence of apolar ecdysteroid conjugates in newly-laid eggs of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. J. Insect Physiol. 34 625-631. 

Numbers in parentheses are those of papers cited in the source reference a single asterisk indicates a paper dealing, at least in part, with Orthoptera. Methods tested on 5 or more individuals of an orthopteian (the house cricket, Acheta domesticus) are maiked with double asterisks. 

Kaye, J. S., McMaster-Kaye, R. The fine structure and chemical composition of nuclei during spermiogenesis in the house cricket. I. Initial stages of differentiation and the loss of nonhistone protein. J. Cell Biol. 31, 159—179 (1966). 

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