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	Developmental- and food-dependent foraging transcript levels in the desert locust
	Tobback Julie; Verlinden Heleen; Vuerinckx Kristel; Vleugels Rut; Broeck Jozef Vanden; Huybrechts Roger
来源期刊	Insect Science
ISSN	1672-9609
出版年	2013
卷号	20 期号:6 页码:679-688
英文摘要	Drastic changes in the environment during a lifetime require developmental and physiological flexibility to ensure animal survival. Desert locusts, Schistocerca gregaria, live in an extremely changeable environment, which alternates between periods of rainfall and abundant food and periods of drought and starvation. In order to survive, locusts display an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity that allows them to rapidly cope with these changing conditions by converting from a cryptic solitarious phase to a swarming, voracious gregarious phase. To accomplish this, locusts possess different conserved mediators of phenotypic plasticity. Recently, attention has been drawn to the possible roles of protein kinases in this process. In addition to cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), also cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), which was shown to be involved in changes of food-related behavior in a variety of insects, has been associated with locust phenotypic plasticity. In this article, we study the transcript levels of the S. gregaria orthologue of the foraging gene that encodes a PKG in different food-related, developmental and crowding conditions. Transcript levels of the S. gregaria foraging orthologue are highest in different parts of the gut and differ between isolated and crowd-reared locusts. They change when the availability of food is altered, display a distinct pattern with higher levels after a moult and decrease with age during postembryonic development.
英文关键词	cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase feeding neuronal plasticity nutritional state Schistocerca gregaria
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	CSCD
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
CSCD记录号	CSCD:5004032
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/335289
作者单位	Tobback Julie, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.; Verlinden Heleen, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.; Vuerinckx Kristel, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.; Vleugels Rut, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.; Broeck Jozef Vanden, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.; Huybrechts Roger, Department of Biology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, 593000, Belgium.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tobback Julie,Verlinden Heleen,Vuerinckx Kristel,et al. Developmental- and food-dependent foraging transcript levels in the desert locust[J],2013,20(6):679-688.
APA	Tobback Julie,Verlinden Heleen,Vuerinckx Kristel,Vleugels Rut,Broeck Jozef Vanden,&Huybrechts Roger.(2013).Developmental- and food-dependent foraging transcript levels in the desert locust.Insect Science,20(6),679-688.
MLA	Tobback Julie,et al."Developmental- and food-dependent foraging transcript levels in the desert locust".Insect Science 20.6(2013):679-688.