The interplay between toxin-releasing β-glucosidase and plant iridoid glycosides impairs larval development in a generalist caterpillar, Grammia incorrupta (Arctiidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 426-434

  Pankoke, Helga ^a   Bowers, M Deane ^b   Dobler, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

glucosidase; Aucubin; Detoxification; Enzyme kinetics; Generalist herbivores; Iridoid glycosides; Plantago lanceolata; Regulation; Taraxacum officinale

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENYL BETA D GLUCOSIDE; 4-NITROPHENYL BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE; AUCUBIN; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDE; IRIDOID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DANDELION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PLANTAGO;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLUCOSIDES; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IRIDOID GLUCOSIDES; IRIDOID GLYCOSIDES; LARVA; MOTHS; PLANTAGO; TARAXACUM;

ARCTIIDAE; ASTERACEAE; GRAMMIA; HEXAPODA; PLANTAGINACEAE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 84860232503     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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