A Proposed Role for the Cuticular Fatty Amides of Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae) in Preventing Adhesion of Entomopathogenic Fungi with Dry …

JC Lord, RW Howard - Mycopathologia, 2004 - Springer
Maximum challenge exposure of Liposcelis bostrychophila to Beauveria bassiana,
Paecilomyces fumosoroseus, Aspergillus parasiticus or Metarhizium anisopliae resulted in …

Chemical Polymorphism of the Cuticular Lipids of the Cabbage White Pieris rapae

C Arsene, S Schulz, JJA Van Loon - Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2002 - Springer
The epicuticular composition of different body parts of the Cabbage White, Pieris rapae L.,
was investigated using GC and GC/MS. The major group of components, hydrocarbons …

Chemical methods (lipids)

AR Gilby - Cuticle techniques in arthropods, 1980 - Springer
The majority of research papers on the chemistry of insect cuticular lipids have been
published in the decade of the 1970s. The analytical methods used in the investigations are …

Cuticular hydrocarbons of Locusta, Schistocerca, and Periplaneta, and their role in waterproofing

KH Lockey - Insect Biochemistry, 1976 - Elsevier
Abstract Hydrocarbons comprise 54% and 76% of the cuticular lipids extracted from the
wings of L. migratoria and S. gregaria respectively. The hydrocarbon fraction of L. migratoria …

Chemical composition of insect surface waxes: biological functions and analytics

M Gołębiowski, P Stepnowski - Handbook of Bioanalytics, 2022 - Springer
The cuticle, which covers the body of an insect, serves many different functions, eg,
reception of signals from the environment, protection against desiccation and reduction of …

Cuticular fatty acids of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera) inhibit fungal enzymatic activities of pathogenic Conidiobolus coronatus

AK Wrońska, MI Boguś, E Włóka, M Kazek… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The entomopathogenic fungus Conidiobolus coronatus produces enzymes that may
hydrolyze the cuticle of Galleria mellonella. Of these enzymes, elastase activity was the …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrocarbons and insects' social physiology

E Provost, O Blight, A Tirard… - Insect …, 2008 - dictionnaire-amoureux-des-fourmis …
Since the middle of the 20th century, improvements in analytical technologies have
permitted the identification of cuticular hydrocarbons present on the cuticle of almost all …

The antifungal activity of the cuticular and internal fatty acid methyl esters and alcohols in Calliphora vomitoria

M Gołębiowski, M Cerkowniak, M Dawgul, W Kamysz… - Parasitology, 2013 - cambridge.org
The composition of the fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) and alcohol fractions of the cuticular
and internal lipids of Calliphora vomitoria larvae, pupae and male/female adults was …

Determination of cuticular and internal fatty acids of Chorthippus brunneus males and females using HPLC‐LLSD and GC–MS

M Gołębiowski, M Cerkowniak… - Biomedical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Insects are of growing significance in veterinary medicine and human healthcare; therefore,
an understanding of their biology is very important. The cuticular and internal fatty acid …

Parasitoid venom alters the lipid composition and development of microorganisms on the wax moth cuticle

VY Kryukov, EI Chernyak, N Kryukova… - Entomologia …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ectoparasitoids may change host metabolism, making the environment more favorable for
the development of their larvae. These alterations may also be suitable for growth and …