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LIST OF CONTENTS Vol. 23, No. 1 ECDYSONE: FROM BIOSYNTHESIS TO REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION Huw H. Rees ] Foreword Peter Cherbas 3. The /Vth Karlson Lecture: ecdysone-responsive genes M. L. Grieneisen, J. T. Warren and 13. Early steps in ecdysteroid biosynthesis: evidence for the involvement of L. I. Gilbert cytochrome P-450 enzymes Dale B. Gelman, Belgaum S. Thyagaraja 25 Ecdysiotropic activity in the Lepidopteran hindgut—an update and Robert A. Bell Malgorzata Muszynska-Pytel, 33 ~Regulation of prothoracic gland activity in diapausing larvae of the wax Renata Trzcinska, Mare Aubry, moth, Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera) Maciej A. PszczélKkowski and Bronislaw Cymborowski Ian S. Sloman and Stuart E. Reynolds Inhibition of ecdysteroid secretion from Manduca prothoracic glands in vitro by destruxins—cyclic depsipeptide toxins from the insect pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae Katrine Meurant and Conrad Sernia 47 The ultrastructure of the prothoracic gland/corpus allatum/corpus cardiacum ring complex of the Australian sheep blowfly larva Lucilia cuprina (Wied.) (Insecta: Diptera) Detlef Bécking, Chantal Dauphin-Villemant, 57 _Ecdysteroid biosynthesis in moulting glands of the crayfish Orconectes Dietrich Sedlmeier, Catherine Blais and limosus: evidence for the synthesis of 3-dehydroecdysone by in vitro René Lafont synthesis and conversion studies Martin J. Mitchell, Daniel P. Keogh, 65 Effects of plant flavonoids and other allelochemicals on _ insect John R. Crooks and Stan L. Smith cytochrome P-450 dependent steroid hydroxylase activity Mohamed Kabbouh and Huw H. Rees 73 Characterization of ATP:ecdysone 3-acetate 2-phosphotransferase (ecdysone 3-acetate 2-kinase) in Schistocerca gregaria larvae Lucy Cherbas and Peter Cherbas 81 The arthropod initiator: the capsite consensus plays an important role in transcription William A. Segraves and Christine Woldin 91 The E75 gene of Manduca sexta and comparison with its Drosophila homolog R. J. Hill, W. A. Segraves, D. Choi, 99 The reaction with polytene chromosomes of antibodies raised against P. A. Underwood and E. MacAvoy Drosophila E75A protein Christophe Antoniewski, Monique Laval and 105 Structural features critical to the activity of an ecdysone receptor Jean-Antoine Lepesant binding site Markus O. Imhof, Sandro Rusconi 115 Cloning of a Chironomus tentans cDNA _ encoding a _ protein and Markus Lezzi (cEcCRH) homologous to the Drosophila melanogaster ecdysteroid receptor (dEcR) L. Sobek, G.-A. B6hm and H. Penzlin 125 Ecdysteroid receptors in last instar larvae of the wax moth Galleria mellonella L. Penelope Terentiou, Marianne Blattmann, 131 Biological activity and receptor-binding of ecdysteroids in imaginal discs Del Bradbrook, Gerd Kduser and of Calliphora vicina: a comparison Jan Koolman S. Tourmente, S. Chapel, D. Dreau, 137. Enhancer and silencer elements within the first intron mediate the M. E. Drake, A. Bruhat, J. L. Couderc transcriptional regulation of the f,; tubulin gene by 20-hydroxyecdysone and B. Dastugue in Drosophila Ke cells iil A. Krishna Kumaran, Nancy A. Memmel, Developmental regulation of arylphorin gene activity in fat body cells Cheng Wang and Patrick M. Trewitt and gonadal sheath cells of Galleria mellonella Eli Shaaya, Paul D. Shirk, Grazyna Zimowska, 153 Declining ecdysteroid levels are temporally correlated with the initiation Sharon Plotkin, Nicola J. Young, Huw H. Rees of vitellogenesis during pharate adult development in the Indianmeal and Donald L. Silhacek moth, Plodia interpunctella Andreas Fretz, Andrea Liibbert, 159 Effects of 20-hydroxyecdysone on protein synthesis in the epithelial cell Ulrich Markmann-Mulisch, line from Chironomus tentans Margarethe Spindler-Barth and Klaus-Dieter Spindler Colette Strambi, Alain Tirard, 165 Ecdysone deprivation affects polyamine metabolism in the house cricket Marielle Renucci, Philippe Faure, Acheta domesticus Pierre Charpin, Roger Augier and Alain Strambi H. Laufer, G. Wainwright, N. J. Young, 171 Ecdysteroids and juvenoids in two male morphotypes of Libinia A. Sagi, J. S. B. Ahl and H. H. Rees emarginata M. F. Corio-Costet, L. Chapuis, 175 Sterol and ecdysteroid profiles of Serratula tinctoria (L.): plant and cell J. F. Mouillet and J. P. Delbecque cultures producing steroids Karel Slama, Nail K. Abubakirov, 18] Hormonal activity of ecdysteroids from certain Asiatic plants Mark B. Gorovits, Umirzak A. Baltaev and Ziyadilla Saatov Christophe Y. Clément, Derek A. Bradbrook, 187 Assessment of a microplate-based bioassay for the detection of ecdy- René Lafont and Laurence Dinan steroid-like or antiecdysteroid activities C. Royer, P. Porcheron, P. Pradelles 193 Development and use of an enzymatic tracer for an enzyme and B. Mauchamp immunoassay of makisterone A Bernard Mauchamp, Corinne Royer, 199 MS/MS analyses of ecdysteroids in developing eggs of Dysdercus Lucien Kerhoas and Jacques Einhorn fasciatus René Lafont, Jan Koolman and Huw Rees 207 Standardized abbreviations for common ecdysteroids Vol. 23, No. 2 Krystyna Grzelak, Barbara Kludkiewicz 211 The effect of 20-hydroxyecdysone on expression of genes coding for low and Zofia Lassota molecular weight silk proteins of Galleria mellonella Paulo E. M. Ribolla, Sirlei Daffre 217 Cathepsin B and acid phosphatase activities during Musca domestica and Antonio G. de Bianchi embryogenesis Yoichi Hayakawa and Yuko Yasuhara 225 Growth-blocking peptide or polydnavirus effects on the last instar larvae of some insect species D. G. Boucias and J. C. Pendland 233 The galactose binding lectin from the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua: distribution and site of synthesis Rosario Maida, Alexander Steinbrecht, 243 The pheromone binding protein of Bombyx mori: purification, Gunde Ziegelberger and Paolo Pelosi characterization and immunocytochemical localization Yang-Ja Park and Ann Marie Fallon 255 Transcripts from a mosquito dihydrofolate reductase gene: evidence for heterogeneity at the 5’ end Peide Gu, William H. Welch and 263 Methyl-branched fatty acid biosynthesis in the German cockroach, Gary J. Blomquist Blattella germanica: kinetic studies comparing a microsomal and soluble fatty acid synthetase Shu-Mei Dai and Sarjeet S. Gill 273 In vitro and in vivo proteolysis of the Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis CryIVD protein by Culex quinquefasciatus larval midgut proteases Yusuke Kato, Kiyoko Taniai, 285 Expression and characterization of cDNAs for cecropin B, an anti- Hirohiko Hirochika and Minoru Yamakawa bacterial protein of the silkworm, Bombyx mori iV Peter Willadsen, George A. Riding, The nucleotidase of Boophilus microplus and its relationship to enzymes Janine Jarmey and Annette Atkins from the rat and Escherichia coli Charlotte E. Borgeson and Gary J. Blomquist Subcellular location of the A’ desaturase rules out bacteriocyte contribution to linoleate biosynthesis in the house cricket and the American cockroach Laszlo Hiripi and Roger G. H. Downer Characterization of serotonin binding sites in insect (Locusta migratoria) brain Teresa Martinez and Diana Wheeler 309 Identification of two storage hexamers in the ant, Camponotus festinatus: accumulation in adult queenless workers Announcement Vol. 23, No. 3 Pensri Whiting, Stanley Sparks and Ecdysteroids during embryogenesis of the house cricket, Acheta Laurence Dinan domesticus: occurrence of novel ecdysteroid conjugates in developing eggs D. Blakemore, M. J. Lehane and S. Williams 331 Cyclic AMP can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes in Stomoxys calcitrans Xinmei Chen, Zhixiang Wang and 337 Flight muscle fatty acid binding protein synthesis in juvenile and adult Norbert H. Haunerland forms of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria Somashekarappa Niranjanakumari and 345 DNA polymerase-f from the pupal ovaries of Bombyx mori Karumathil P. Gopinathan Bernard Delobel, Yvan Rahbé, 355 Biochemical and cytological survey of tyrosine storage proteins in Christiane Nardon, Josette Guillaud Coleoptera: diversity of strategies and Paul Nardon Charles E. Linn Jr and Wendell L. Roelofs 367 ~Levels of biogenic amines and peptides in individual corn earworm moths, Helicoverpa zea, using high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection Paul J. Skiba and Larry L. Jackson 375 (Z)-10-Heptadecen-2-one and _ 2-tridecanone biosynthesis from [1-'*C]acetate by Drosophila buzzatii Marcel Amichot, Claude Castella, 381 Transcription analysis of the para gene by in situ hybridization and Jean-Baptiste Bergé and David Pauron immunological characterization of its expression product in wild-type and mutant strains of Drosophila J. S. Andersen, S. O. Andersen, 391 Primary structure of a 14 kDa basic structural protein (Lm-76) from the P. Hejrup and P. Roepstorff cuticle of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria A. Heddi, F. Lefebvre and P. Nardon 403 Effect of endocytobiotic bacteria on mitochondrial enzymatic activities in the weevil Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Stephen G. Miller and Donald L. Silhacek 413 Properties of two hemolymph riboflavin-binding proteins from Heliothis virescens Charles R. Vossbrinck, Pawel A. Osmulski 421 Characterization of hemoglobin from the backswimmer Buenoa and Peter G. Debrunner margaritacea (Hemiptera: Notonectidae) reveals high electrophoretic heterogeneity Vol. 23, No. 4 David H. Petzel, Adrianne K. Parrish, 431 Arachidonic acid and prostaglandin E, in Malpighian tubules of female Clyde L. Ogg, Nancy A. Witters, yellow fever mosquitoes Ralph W. Howard and David W. Stanley-Samuelson J. F. Koener, F. A. Carifio and R. Feyereisen 439 The cDNA and deduced protein sequence of house fly NADPH- cytochrome P450 reductase Vv J. Krieger, H. GanBle, K. Raming 449 Odorant binding proteins of Heliothis virescens and H. Breer Denise Valle, Juergen Kun, Jutta Linss, 457 cDNA cloning and expression of Rhodnius prolixus vitellogenin Eloi de Souza Garcia and Samuel Goldenberg Laurent Lagadic, André Cuany, 467 Purification and partial characterization of glutathione S-transferases Jean-Baptiste Bergé and Michel Echaubard from insecticide-resistant and lindane-induced susceptible Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) larvae Laurent Lagadic and Thierry Cresteil 475 Enhanced in vitro metabolism of testosterone by microsomes from insecticide-resistant Spodoptera littoralis larvae Michel Descamps and René Lafont 481 Conversion of different putative ecdysteroid precursors in Lithobius forficatus L. (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) C. P. Robinson, S. Ciccotosto, A. M. Gaal 491 Purification of cysteine lyase from larvae of the webbing clothes moth, and L. G. Sparrow Tineola bisselliella D. J. Chappell and M. Slaytor 499 Uric acid synthesis in freshly collected and laboratory-maintained Nasutitermes walkeri Hill Hazel G. N. Khoo and Kim Ping Wong 507 Sulphate conjugation of serotonin and N-acetylserotonin in the mosquito, Aedes togoi Nobuhiko Asada, Takashi Fukumitsu, 515 Activation of prophenoloxidase with 2-propanol and other organic Kengo Fujimoto and Ken-ichiro Masuda compounds in Drosophila melanogaster Carsten Nehr and Svend Olav Andersen 521 Cuticular proteins from fifth instar nymphs of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria Francisco J. A. Lemos, Alberto F. Ribeiro 533 A bacteria-digesting midgut-lysozyme from Musca domestica (Diptera) and Walter R. Terra larvae. Purification, properties and secretory mechanism Vol. 23, No. 5 J. F. M. Leal and M. Barbancho 543. Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity in Drosophila melanogaster adults: evidence for cytosolic localization James S. Buckner, Paul E. Otto, 549 Xanthine dehydrogenase in the fat body of Manduca sexta: purification, Samuel M. Newman and George Graf characterization, subcellular localization and levels during the last larval instar E. Tomlin, H. McLean and S. Caveney 561 Active accumulation of glutamate and aspartate by insect epidermal cells T. Schmidt, Y. Choffat, M. Schneider, 571. Drosophila suzukii contains a peptide homologous to the Drosophila P. Hunziker, Y. Fuyama and E. Kubli melanogaster sex-peptide and functional in both species S. A. Ahmad and T. L. Hopkins 581 £-Glucosylation of plant phenolics by phenol f-glucosyltransferase in larval tissues of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.) Daniela Marchini, Piero C. Giordano, 591 Purification and primary structure of Ceratotoxin A and B, two Reinout Amons, Luigi F. Bernini and antibacterial peptides from the female reproductive accessory glands of Romano Dallai the medfly Ceratitis capitata (Insecta: Diptera) Algimantas P. Valaitis and Diana F. Bowers 599 Purification and properties of the soluble midgut trehalase from the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar Richard I. Samuels, A. Keith Charnley 607 A cuticle-degrading proteinase from the moulting fluid of the tobacco and Stuart E. Reynolds hornworm, Manduca sexta Richard I. Samuels, A. Keith Charnley 615 An aminopeptidase from the moulting fluid of the tobacco hornworm, and Stuart E. Reynolds Manduca sexta Munna Agarwal, Nacira Bensaadi, 621 Characterization and genetic organization of full-length copies of a Jean-Claude Salvado, Keith Campbell LINE retroposon family dispersed in the genome of Culex pipiens and Claude Mouchés mosquitoes Vi S. Sridhara mRNAs of wing epidermis of the oak silkmoth Antheraea polyphemus and other silkmoths during pupal development Nancy E. Beckage and Michael R. Kanost 643 Effects of parasitism by the braconid wasp Cotesia congregata on host hemolymph proteins of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta Vol. 23, No. 6 Per Ivarsson, Fredrik Schlyter and 655 Demonstration of de novo pheromone biosynthesis in Jps duplicatus Goran Birgersson (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): inhibition of ipsdienol and £-myrcenol production by compactin R. Milne and H. Kaplan 663 Purification and characterization of a trypsin-like digestive enzyme from spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) responsible for the activation of 6-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis Patricia V. Pietrantonio and Sarjeet S. Gill 675 Sequence of a 17kDa vacuolar H*-ATPase proteolipid subunit from insect midgut and Malpighian tubules Seppo Turunen 681 Metabolic pathways in the midgut epithelium of Pieris brassicae during carbohydrate and lipid assimilation Karl J. Kramer, Lolita Corpuz, Hee K. Choi 691 Sequence of a cDNA and expression of the gene encoding epidermal and and Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan gut chitinases of Manduca sexta Dov Borovsky, D. A. Carlson, P. R. Griffin, 703 Mass spectrometry and characterization of Aedes aegypti trypsin J. Shabanowitz and D. F. Hunt modulating oostatic factor (TMOF) and its analogs K. S. Lefevere, M. J. Lacey, P. H. Smith 713 Identification and quantification of juvenile hormone biosynthesized by and B. Roberts larval and adult Australian sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Holly J. R. Popham and 721 Measurement of the lipophorin titer in the larval hemolymph of the G. Michael Chippendale southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, by ELISA Jeffrey G. Scott and Susanna S. T. Lee 729 Tissue distribution of microsomal cytochrome P-450 monooxygenases and their inducibility by phenobarbital in the insecticide resistant LPR strain of house fly, Musca domestica L. Jianyong Li and Bruce M. Christensen 739 Involvement of L-tyrosine and phenol oxidase in the tanning of Aedes aegypti eggs Robert R. Miller Jr, Jonathan W. Yates 749 Dietary ethanol stimulates the activity of phosphatidylcholine-specific and Billy W. Geer phospholipase D and the formation of phosphatidylethanol in Drosophila melanogaster larvae Vol. 23, No. 7 I. Boekhoff, E. Seifert, S. Géggerle, 757 Pheromone-induced second-messenger signaling in insect antennae M. Lindemann, B.-W. Kriiger and H. Breer Martin F. J. Taylor, David G. Heckel, 763 Linkage of pyrethroid insecticide resistance to a sodium channel locus Thomas M. Brown, Martin E. Kreitman in the tobacco budworm and Bruce Black Christos G. Zervas, Panagiotis G. Katsoris 777 Isolation of a 54kDa_ tyrosyl-phosphorylated protein from _ the and Vassilis J. Marmaras integument of the medfly Ceratitis capitata: possible physiological substrate for integumental phosphatase activity Miranda C. Van Heusden 785 Characterization and identification of a lipoprotein lipase from Manduca sexta flight muscle H. J. Bestmann, A. B. Attygalle, W. Garbe, 793 Chemical structure and final steps of biosynthesis of the female sex F. Kern, V. Martichonok, D. Schafer, pheromone of Gastropacha quercifolia (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) O. Vostrowsky and I. Hasenfub N. S. Lamango and R. E. Isaac Metabolism of insect neuropeptides: properties of a membrane-bound endopeptidase from heads of Musca domestica Steven A. Reeves and Miles K. Yamanaka 809 Cloning and sequence analysis of the alpha subunit of the cat flea sodium pump Mario A. C. Silva-Neto and Pedro L. Oliveira 815 Protein phosphorylation in Rhodnius prolixus oocytes: identification of a type II casein kinase Grace Jones, Venkateswar Venkataraman Transcriptional regulation of an unusual trypsin-related protein and Maria Manczak expressed during insect metamorphosis Minli Zhang and Isao Kubo Metabolic fate of ecdysteroids in larval Bombyx mori and Heliothis virescens Miklos Sass, Agnes Kiss and Michael Locke 845 Classes of integument peptides Vol. 23, No. 8 Mini- Review Liliane Schoofs, Jozef Vanden Broeck and 859 The myotropic peptides of Locusta migratoria: structures, distribution, Arnold De Loof functions and receptors Frank A. Shotkoski and Ann Marie Fallon 883 The mosquito dihydrofolate reductase gene functions as a dominant selectable marker in transfected cells Heather Cook and Ian Orchard 895 The short term effects of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine on peripheral serotonin stores in Rhodnius prolixus and their long-term recovery E. G. Abraham, N. Mounier and G. Bosquet 905 Expression of a Bombyx cytoplasmic actin gene in cultured Drosophila cells: influence of 20-hydroxyecdysone and interference with expression of endogenous cytoplasmic actin genes Masao Iketani and Isao Morishima 913 Induction of antibacterial protein synthesis by soluble peptidoglycan in isolated fat body from larvae of the silkworm, Bombyx mori Akira Wadano, Yasutaka Takenaka and 919 3-Hydroxykynurenine as a radical scavenger in the blowfly, A/drichina Motonobu Matumoto grahami Angela Huth, Konrad Dettner, Christian FréBl 927 Feeding of xenobiotic w-phenylalkanoic acids remarkably changes the and Wilhelm Boland chemistry and toxicity of the defensive secretion of Oxytelus sculpturatus Grav. (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Oxytelinae) A. Blanchetot and R. H. Gooding 937 Genetic analysis by DNA fingerprinting in tsetse fly genomes Eric Provost, Germaine Riviere, Maurice Roux, 945 Change in the chemical signature of the ant Leptothorax lichtensteini E. David Morgan and Anne G. Bagneres Bondroit with time Moshe Reuveni and Peter E. Dunn 959 Absorption pathways of amino acids in the midgut of Manduca sexta larvae