Locusta

Microsporida, especially Nosema spp., are pathogens in many insect pests. However, only Nosema locustae which attacks grasshoppers, is marketed. 

Clynen, E., Baggerman, G., Veelaert, D., Cerstiaens, A., Van der Horst, D., Harthoorn, L., Derua, R., Waelkens, E., De Loof, A., Schoofs, L. (2001). Peptidomics of the pars intercerebralis-corpus cardiacum complex of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria. Eur. J. Biochem. 268, 1929-1939. 

Kraufvelin P, Salovius S, Christie H, Moy FE, Karez R, Pedersen MF (2006) Eutrophication-induced changes in benthic algae affect the behaviour and fitness of the marine amphipod Gammarus locusta. Aquat Bot 84 199-209... 

Aphids = Formia = Agelaius = Locusta = Choristoneura = 0.02-0.007 for other animals = 0.004-0.01 for other animals = 0.04 for other animals vvss = vertebrate very strong selectivity vss = vertebrate strong selectivity msv = more selectivity for vertebrate ns = no selectivity msiv = more selectivity for invertebrate vsss = vertebrate slight selectivity. 

The antennal olfactory receptor system in several phytophagous insects is very sensitive in the detection of the green odour components. In the Colorado beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata, the threshold of response for trans-2-hexen-1-ol is circa 10b molecules per ml of air (17). In comparison, at 760 mm Hg and 20 C, 1 ml of air contains about 1019 molecules. The insects tested i.e., the migratory locust Locusta migratoria, the carrot fly Psila rosae (18), the cereal aphid Sitobion avenae (19), the Colorado beetle L. decemlineata (17), Leptinotarsa... 

Germot A, Philippe H, Le Guyader H (1997) Evidence for loss of mitochondria in mi-crosporidia from a mitochondrial-type HSP70 in Nosema locustae. Mol Biochem Parasitol 87 159-168... 

Williams BA, Keeling PJ (2005) Microsporidian mitochondrial proteins expression in Antonospora locustae spores and identification of genes coding for two further proteins. J Eukaryot Microbiol 52 271-276... 

Insects Locusta migratoria100—brown crop fluid 64,000 green crop fluid 4000-14,000 hemolymph 300 ecdysial fluid, trace. Drosophila melanogaster embryo6108 6000. 

Insects 100 brown crop fluid of—Locusta migratoria 12,000, Schistocerca gregaria... 

Insects 109 110 entire insect—Acyrthosiphum pisurn 163, Megoura vicia 118, Pieris brassicae 60, Diataraxia oleracea 524, Tribolium castaneum 3560, Phaedon cochleariae 2820, Dysdercus fasciatus 3920, Blatta orientalis 280, B. germanica 1180, Musca do-mestica 1100. Crop fluid of Locusta migratoria 112,500. 

Picimbon J. F., Dietrich K., Breer H. and Krieger J. (2000). Chemosensory proteins of Locusta migratoria (Orthoptera Acrididae). Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30, 233-241. 

Schoofs L., Holman G. M., Hayes T. K., Nachman R. J. and Loof A. D. (1990a). Isolation, identification and synthesis of locustamyotropin II, an additional neuropeptide of Locusta migratoria member of the cephalomyotropic peptide family. Insect Biochem. 20, 479-484. 

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