Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics

Entomology is a super science, embracing interdisciplinary approaches in genomics, proteomics, and interdependent fields of biochemistry, physiology, molecular entomology, and biotechnology. An urgent need to manage available resources for the benefit of the planet and humankind has led to remarkable progress since publication of the fruit fly genome in 2000. Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics presents multiple perspectives of recognized experts from around the world in genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology, emphasizing fast-moving areas of current research on insects and other arthropods. Concise, accessible, topical reviews include body lice and white fly genome projects, aphid phenotypic plasticity, insect regulatory genomics, the complex tick sialome, protein expression systems, therapeutic potential of insect antimicrobial peptides, nanoparticle insecticides, and novel uses for recombinant and synthetic spider silks.

Written by a distinguished international group of contributors from leading world research centres and universities Well-organized format provides concise, readable, easily searched entries with a wealth of accessible illlustrations Complete up-to-date coverage of many current topics (gene regulatory mechanisms in model and non-model insects, applications of RNAi and related gene technologies, proteomics, nano-insecticides etc.) Significance of insect genomics, proteomics and delineating the pros and cons associated with insect molecular biology Details major insect functions, including developmental plasticity, reproduction, genetics, immunology, biochemistry and physiology Contains more than 1000 current references in scientific literature and up-to-date information on ongoing insect genomic, proteomic and biotechnology research projects Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Volume 2 comprises 10 chapters emphasizing proteomics and other omics approaches for gaining fundamental knowledge of ticks, malaria mosquitoes, caterpillar larvae, spiders, and other arthropods, and practical applications for the specialized substances they produce. Included are comprehensive reviews of the tick salivary gland proteome, the lepidopteran larval peritrophic matrix, and circadian changes in the malaria mosquito proteome, the biochemistry of insect cold adaptation, and the evolutionary loss of selenocysteine from insect lineages. Surveyed are antimicrobial peptides for medical therapeutics, advanced insect systems for expressing biologically active proteins, properties and uses for spider silks, and novel nano-insecticides from bio-active plant extracts.
The editors have assembled top-quality scientists from diverse fields of insect genomics, proteomics and biotechnology to produce a major new work. The chapters of this series (Volumes 1 & 2) present many experts' contributions, providing a concise overview of recent advances by highlighting their current research. The chapters are accessible to wide audience, helping students, postdocs, and researchers to broaden their knowledge and gain an understanding of the challenges and opportunities in each field. Emphasis is on innovative effective and ecologically sound approaches based on the knowledge of insect science to improve public health and agriculture.

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1.Exploring the sialomes of ticks.- 2. Qualitative and quantitative proteomics methods for the analysis of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito proteome.- 3. Lepidopteran peritrophic matrix composition, function, and formation.- 4. Cold adaptation responses in insects and other arthropods: An omics approach.- 5. Selenocysteine extinctions in insects.- 6. Lepidopteran antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): Overview, regulation, modes of action, and therapeutic potentials of insect-derived AMPs.- 7. Advanced protein expression using Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) bacmid in silkworm.- 8. Insect biotechnology.- 9. Spider silks and their biotechnological applications.- 10. Nano-insecticides for the control of human and crop pests