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Chemical phenotype matching between a plant and its insect herbivoreM R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 3795, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:13743-8. 1998....
Postgenomic chemical ecology: from genetic code to ecological interactionsMay R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801 3795, USA
J Chem Ecol 28:873-96. 2002..Molecular approaches now allow chemical ecologists to characterize specifically those biochemical innovations postulated to lead to adaptation and diversification in plant/insect interactions...- Parsnip webworms and host plants at home and abroad: trophic complexity in a geographic mosaicMay R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois, 505 South Goodwin, Urbana, Illinois 61801 3795, USA
Ecology 87:3070-81. 2006.... - Cytochrome P450s in Papilio multicaudatus and the transition from oligophagy to polyphagy in the PapilionidaeW Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinoism Urbana, IL, USA
Insect Mol Biol 16:481-90. 2007..Loss of specialization in this lineage may have resulted from relatively few mutational changes, allowing acquisition of broader catalytic activities without loss of ancestral furanocoumarin-metabolizing activities... - Facing the future of plant-insect interaction research: le retour à la "raison d'être"May R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801-3795, USA
Plant Physiol 146:804-11. 2008 - Chemical communication in a post-genomic worldMay R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:14513. 2003 - Molecular analysis of CYP321A1, a novel cytochrome P450 involved in metabolism of plant allelochemicals (furanocoumarins) and insecticides (cypermethrin) in Helicoverpa zeaMasataka Sasabe
Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Gene 338:163-75. 2004..zea larvae to toxic furanocoumarins and insecticides. Genomic PCR analysis indicates that the CYP321A1 gene has evolved independently from the CYP6B genes known to be present in this insect... - Effects of a naturally occurring and a synthetic synergist on toxicity of three insecticides and a phytochemical to navel orangeworm (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)Guodong Niu
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Econ Entomol 105:410-7. 2012..In addition, this study demonstrates that in A. transitella the insect growth regulator methoxyfenozide is not detoxified by P450s... - Identification of variable amino acids in the SRS1 region of CYP6B1 modulating furanocoumarin metabolismLiping Pan
Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Arch Biochem Biophys 422:31-41. 2004..These effects are possibly mediated through rearrangement of the local hydrogen bond network... 
Aflatoxin B1 detoxification by CYP321A1 in Helicoverpa zeaGuodong Niu
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 3795, USA
Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 69:32-45. 2008..zea. Docking of AFB1 in the molecular models of CYP321A1 and CYP6B8 highlights differences in their proximal catalytic site volumes that allow only CYP321A1 to generate the AFP1 metabolite...- CYP9Q-mediated detoxification of acaricides in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)Wenfu Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:12657-62. 2011..The independent regulation of these P450s can be useful for monitoring and differentiating between pesticide exposures in-hive and in agricultural fields... - A substrate-specific cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, CYP6AB11, from the polyphagous navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella)Guodong Niu
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 41:244-53. 2011.... - Impact of elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 and herbivory on flavonoids of soybean (Glycine max Linnaeus)Bridget F O'Neill
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 36:35-45. 2010..This nutritional benefit could lead to increased herbivore longevity and increased damage to soybean (and perhaps other crop plants) in the future... - Toxicity of aflatoxin B1 to Helicoverpa zea and bioactivation by cytochrome P450 monooxygenasesRen Sen Zeng
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 32:1459-71. 2006..Collectively, these findings indicate that, as in many other vertebrates and invertebrates, toxicity of AFB1 to H. zea results from P450-mediated metabolic bioactivation... - Ecological significance of induction of broad-substrate cytochrome P450s by natural and synthetic inducers in Helicoverpa zeaZhimou Wen
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 35:183-9. 2009.... - Role of cysteine proteinase inhibitors in preference of Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) for soybean (Glycine max) leaves of different ages and grown under elevated CO2Jorge A Zavala
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
Oecologia 161:35-41. 2009..Cysteine proteinase inhibitors are potent defenses against JB, and the effectiveness of this defense is modulated by growth under elevated CO(2) as well as leaf position... - Olfactory preferences of Popillia japonica, Vanessa cardui, and Aphis glycines for Glycine max grown under elevated CO2Bridget F O'Neill
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Environ Entomol 39:1291-301. 2010..An increase in production of volatiles in soybeans grown under elevated CO(2) conditions may lead to larger herbivore outbreaks in the future... - Quercetin-metabolizing CYP6AS enzymes of the pollinator Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae)Wenfu Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 3795, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 154:427-34. 2009..Multiple replacements in the catalytic site of CYP6AS4 and CYP6AS10 and repositioning of the quercetin molecule likely account for the lower metabolic activities of CYP6AS4 and CYP6AS10 compared to CYP6AS1 and CYP6AS3... - Ile115Leu mutation in the SRS1 region of an insect cytochrome P450 (CYP6B1) compromises substrate turnover via changes in a predicted product release channelZhimou Wen
Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Protein Eng Des Sel 18:191-9. 2005.... - Foliage of oaks grown under elevated CO2 reduces performance of Antheraea polyphemus (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)Rachel G Knepp
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61820, USA
Environ Entomol 36:609-17. 2007..By subtly altering aspects of leaf chemistry, the ever-increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will change the trophic dynamics in forest ecosystems... - Modifications in the N-terminus of an insect cytochrome P450 enhance production of catalytically active protein in baculovirus-Sf9 cell expression systemsWenfu Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 38:66-75. 2008.... - Regulation of an insect cytochrome P450 monooxygenase gene (CYP6B1) by aryl hydrocarbon and xanthotoxin response cascadesRebecca Petersen Brown
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Gene 358:39-52. 2005.... - Allelic variation in the Depressaria pastinacella CYP6AB3 protein enhances metabolism of plant allelochemicals by altering a proximal surface residue and potential interactions with cytochrome P450 reductaseWenfu Mao
Departments of Entomology and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Biol Chem 282:10544-52. 2007..Allelic variation at this locus potentially allows D. pastinacella to adapt to both intraspecific and interspecific variation in imperatorin concentrations in its host plants... - Evolutionary toxicogenomics: diversification of the Cyp12d1 and Cyp12d3 genes in Drosophila speciesCynthia M McDonnell
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
J Mol Evol 74:281-96. 2012.... - Ecologically appropriate xenobiotics induce cytochrome P450s in Apis melliferaReed M Johnson
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e31051. 2012..They cope with these and other xenobiotics primarily through enzymatic detoxificative processes, but the regulation of detoxificative enzymes in honey bees remains largely unexplored... - CYP6B1 and CYP6B3 of the black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes): adaptive evolution through subfunctionalizationZhimou Wen
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, IL, USA
Mol Biol Evol 23:2434-43. 2006.... - Inhibition of CYP6B1-mediated detoxification of xanthotoxin by plant allelochemicals in the black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)Zhimou Wen
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 32:507-22. 2006..The structure-activity relationships for methylenedioxyphenyl compounds, flavonoids, imidazole, and imidazole derivatives are also discussed in light of their capacity to inhibit the xanthotoxin-metabolic activity of CYP6B1... - Metabolism of myristicin by Depressaria pastinacella CYP6AB3v2 and inhibition by its metaboliteWenfu Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 38:645-51. 2008..0 kcal/mol). Inhibition assays indicate that myristicin acts as a mixed inhibitor of this insect P450 and suggest that the epoxide metabolite may be an intermediate involved in the formation of P450-methylenedioxyphenyl complexes... - Longevity and fecundity of Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) on foliage grown under elevated carbon dioxideBridget F O'Neill
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Environ Entomol 37:601-7. 2008..Although the precise mechanism is unclear, by altering components of leaf chemistry other than sugar content, elevated CO(2) may increase populations of Japanese beetles and their impact on crop productivity... - Conserved regulatory elements in the promoters of two allelochemical-inducible cytochrome P450 genes differentially regulate transcriptionCynthia M McDonnell
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 34:1129-39. 2004.... - Genetic variation in primary metabolites of Pastinaca sativa; can herbivores act as selective agents?Arthur R Zangerl
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 30:1985-2002. 2004.... - Structural and functional divergence of insect CYP6B proteins: From specialist to generalist cytochrome P450Xianchun Li
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:2939-44. 2004..These results indicate that generalist counterdefense proteins are capable of accepting a more structurally diverse array of compounds compared with specialist counterdefense proteins... - Diversification of furanocoumarin-metabolizing cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in two papilionids: Specificity and substrate encounter rateWeimin Li
Departments of Entomology and Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:14593-8. 2003..Further diversification of Papilio CYP6Bs has likely involved interspersed events of positive selection in oligophagous species and relaxation of functional constraints in polyphagous species... - The differential effects of herbivory by first and fourth instars of Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thalianaJennie Y Tang
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-3707, USA
J Exp Bot 57:527-36. 2006..The mode of feeding by different instars of T. ni determined the photosynthetic response to herbivory, which appeared to be mediated by the level of water stress associated with herbivore damage... - Comparison of photosynthetic damage from arthropod herbivory and pathogen infection in understory hardwood saplingsMihai Aldea
Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
Oecologia 149:221-32. 2006..Thus, estimates based only on the direct effect of biotic agents may greatly underestimate their actual impact on photosynthesis... - Anthropogenic increase in carbon dioxide compromises plant defense against invasive insectsJorge A Zavala
Institute for Genomic Biology and Departments of Plant Biology and Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5129-33. 2008..These findings suggest that predicted increases in soybean productivity under projected elevated CO2 levels may be reduced by increased susceptibility to invasive crop pests... - Mediation of pyrethroid insecticide toxicity to honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) by cytochrome P450 monooxygenasesReed M Johnson
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Econ Entomol 99:1046-50. 2006..The potent synergism between tau-fluvalinate and PBO suggests that P450s are especially important in the detoxification of this pyrethroid and explains the ability of honey bees to tolerate its presence... - Synergistic interactions between in-hive miticides in Apis melliferaReed M Johnson
Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois, 505 S Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801 3795, USA
J Econ Entomol 102:474-9. 2009..These results suggest that honey bee mortality may occur with the application of otherwise sublethal doses of miticide when tau-fluvalinate and coumaphos are simultaneously present in the hive... - Bioenergy crops Miscanthus x giganteus and Panicum virgatum reduce growth and survivorship of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)Paul D Nabity
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Econ Entomol 104:459-64. 2011..frugiperda because of reduced suitability... - Molecular docking of substrates and inhibitors in the catalytic site of CYP6B1, an insect cytochrome p450 monooxygenaseJerome Baudry
School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 190 ERML, 1201 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Protein Eng 16:577-87. 2003.... - Cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of xanthotoxin by Papilio multicaudatusWenfu Mao
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 32:523-36. 2006..polyxenes and Depressaria pastinacella are consistent with the suggestion that lepidopterans share as the first step of xanthotoxin metabolism the P450-mediated epoxidation of the furan ring 2'-3' double bond... - Aliphatic esters as targets of esterase activity in the parsnip webworm (Depressaria pastinacella)Arthur R Zangerl
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 3795, USA
J Chem Ecol 38:188-94. 2012.... - Tritrophic effects of xanthotoxin on the polyembryonic parasitoid Copidosoma sosares (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)Evan C Lampert
Department of Entomology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58105, USA
J Chem Ecol 34:783-90. 2008..Therefore, the observed tritrophic effects of xanthotoxin are likely to be due to the effects of xanthotoxin after direct contact in the hemolymph rather than to the effects of compromised host quality... - Comparative toxicity of mycotoxins to navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella) and corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea)Guodong Niu
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 35:951-7. 2009..zea. Our studies indicate that A. transitella, although a hostplant generalist, may well be highly specialized for mycotoxin detoxification... - Increase in toxicity of an invasive weed after reassociation with its coevolved herbivoreArthur R Zangerl
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, 320 Morrill Hall, Urbana, IL 61801 3795, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:15529-32. 2005..Thus, introduction of a major specialist herbivore can increase noxiousness of a species in its area of introduction, illuminating a potential consequence of classical biocontrol programs involving insect herbivores and poisonous weeds... - Transcriptional profiling reveals elevated CO2 and elevated O3 alter resistance of soybean (Glycine max) to Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica)Clare L Casteel
Department of Plant Biology, and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Plant Cell Environ 31:419-34. 2008..By suppressing the ability to mount an effective defence, elevated CO2 may decrease resistance of soybean to herbivory... - Larval environmental stress alters Aedes aegypti competence for Sindbis virusEphantus J Muturi
Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA
Trop Med Int Health 16:955-64. 2011..To evaluate how stress at the larval stage alters adult mosquito performance and susceptibility to viral infection... - Elevated CO(2) influences herbivory-induced defense responses of Arabidopsis thalianaM Gabriela Bidart-Bouzat
Department of Animal Biology, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 1801, USA
Oecologia 145:415-24. 2005..This study can have implications for the evolution of inducible defenses and coevolutionary adaptations between plants and their associated herbivores in future changing environments... - Changes in transcript abundance relating to colony collapse disorder in honey bees (Apis mellifera)Reed M Johnson
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:14790-5. 2009..Ribosomal fragment abundance and presence of multiple viruses may prove to be useful diagnostic markers for colonies afflicted with CCD... - Cytochrome P450 and actin genes expressed in Helicoverpa zea and Helicoverpa armigera: paralogy/orthology identification, gene conversion and evolutionXianchun Li
Department of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095, Nanjing, People s Republic of China
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 32:311-20. 2002..These orthologous relationships and the high degrees of similarity in both actin and P450 genes strongly indicate that these Helicoverpa species are extremely closely related... - Behavioral responses of the parsnip webworm to host plant volatilesMark J Carroll
Department of Entomology, 320 Morril Hall, University of Illinois, 505 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 28:2191-201. 2002..Such behavior may explain differences in the relative abundance of these esters observed among populations of wild parsnip under differential selection pressure from these insects... - Jasmonate and salicylate induce expression of herbivore cytochrome P450 genesXianchun Li
Department of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Nature 419:712-5. 2002..This ability to 'eavesdrop' on plant defence signals protects H. zea against toxins produced by host plants... - Geographic variation in alkaloid production in Conium maculatum populations experiencing differential herbivory by Agonopterix alstroemerianaEva Castells
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Chem Ecol 31:1693-709. 2005..These results suggest that A. alstroemeriana may act either as a selective agent or inducing agent for C. maculatum and increase its toxicity in its introduced range... - Elevated CO2 reduces leaf damage by insect herbivores in a forest communityRachel G Knepp
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61820, USA
New Phytol 167:207-18. 2005..Damage to the leaves of hardwood trees by herbivorous insects may be reduced in the future as the concentration of CO(2) continues to increase, perhaps altering the trophic structure of forest ecosystems... - Transcriptional response elements in the promoter of CYP6B1, an insect P450 gene regulated by plant chemicalsRebecca A Petersen
Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1619:269-82. 2003..Mutagenesis in the non-overlapping region of the EcRE indicates it modulates basal transcription. These findings are incorporated into a working model for regulation of this toxin-inducible promoter... - Metabolism of linear and angular furanocoumarins by Papilio polyxenes CYP6B1 co-expressed with NADPH cytochrome P450 reductaseZhimou Wen
Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 33:937-47. 2003..polyxenes' early colonization of linear furanocoumarin-containing plants and to its subsequent colonization of angular furanocoumarin-containing plants... - Ecology. Bugs' bugsMay R Berenbaum
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Science 322:52-3. 2008 - Allelochemical induction of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases and amelioration of xenobiotic toxicity in Helicoverpa zeaRen Sen Zeng
Key Lab of Pesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, People s Republic of China
J Chem Ecol 33:449-61. 2007..zea... - Plant allelochemicals differentially regulate Helicoverpa zea cytochrome P450 genesXianchun Li
Department of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Insect Mol Biol 11:343-51. 2002.... - Insect herbivory in an intact forest understory under experimental CO2 enrichmentJason G Hamilton
Department of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Oecologia 138:566-73. 2004.... - Lutein sequestration and furanocoumarin metabolism in parsnip webworms under different ultraviolet light regimes in the montane westMark J Carroll
Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, USDA ARS SAA, 1600 1700 SW 16th Drive, Gainesville, FL 32604, USA
J Chem Ecol 32:277-305. 2006..In contrast with the variation in furanocoumarin content, the ability of webworms to metabolize furanocoumarins by cytochrome P450 did not differ significantly among populations from New Mexico to Alberta... - Molecular mechanisms of metabolic resistance to synthetic and natural xenobioticsXianchun Li
Department of Entomology and BIO5, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Annu Rev Entomol 52:231-53. 2007..Differences in the selective regime imposed by allelochemicals and insecticides may account for the relative importance of regulatory or structural mutations in conferring resistance...