Tissue-specific plant toxins and adaptation in a specialist root herbivore

AA Agrawal, AP Hastings - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In coevolution between plants and insects, reciprocal selection often leads to phenotype
matching between chemical defense and herbivore offense. Nonetheless, it is not well …

Alterations in mitochondrial structure and function in response to environmental temperature changes in Apostichopus japonicus

L Lu, Y Yang, G Shi, X He, X Xu, Y Feng… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global temperatures have risen as a result of climate change, and the resulting warmer
seawater will exert physiological stresses on many aquatic animals, including Apostichopus …

Coevolutionary escalation led to differentially adapted paralogs of an insect's Na, K‐ATPase optimizing resistance to host plant toxins

M Herbertz, S Dalla, V Wagschal, R Turjalei… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac glycosides are chemical defence toxins known to fatally inhibit the Na, K‐ATPase
(NKA) throughout the animal kingdom. Several animals, however, have evolved target‐site …

WGCCRR: a web-based tool for genome-wide screening of convergent indels and substitutions of amino-acids

Z Dong, C Wang, Q Qu - Bioinformatics Advances, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide analyses of protein-coding gene sequences are being employed to examine
the genetic basis of adaptive evolution in many organismal groups. Previous studies have …

The path to “femmes fatales”: the evolution of toxin resistance in predatory fireflies

L Yang, F Borne, ML Aardema, Y Zhen, J Peng, M Wu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Toxic cardiotonic steroids (CTS) act as a defense mechanism in many firefly species
(Lampyridae) by inhibiting a crucial enzyme called Na+, K+-ATPase (NKA). While most …

Identifikation und Charakterisierung von ABCB Transportern im Blattkäfer Chrysochus asclepiadeus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidea, Eumolpinae)

C Plate - 2023 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
In der Blattkäfergattung Chrysochus haben sich die nordamerikanischen Vertreter C.
auratus und C. cobaltinus auf Cardenolid-produzierende Apocynaceae spezialisiert. Die …

Predatory fireflies and their toxic firefly prey have evolved distinct toxin resistance strategies

L Yang, F Borne, A Betz, ML Aardema, Y Zhen, J Peng… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Toxic cardiotonic steroids (CTSs) act as a defense mechanism in many firefly species
(Lampyridae) by inhibiting a crucial enzyme called Na+, K+-ATPase (NKA). Although most …