Ecdysteroid receptor docking suggests that dibenzoylhydrazine-based insecticides are devoid of any deleterious effect on the parasitic wasp Psyttalia concolor (Hym. Braconidae)

Pest Management Science

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 976-985

  Bengochea, Paloma ^a   Christiaens, Olivier ^b   Amor, Fermín ^a   Viñuela, Elisa ^a   Rougé, Pierre ^c   Medina, Pilar ^a   Smagghe, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UMR 152 IRD Universite Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Docking; Ecdysteroid receptor; Modelling; Moulting accelerating compounds; Parasitic wasp; Psyttalia concolor; Side effects

Indexed keywords

DIBENZOHYDRAZINE; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSTEROID; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; LIGAND; STEROID RECEPTOR;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FLY; HOMOLOGY; HORMONE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECTICIDE; LIGAND; MOLT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST SPECIES; PROTEIN; STEROID; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECDYSTEROIDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDRAZINES; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; WASPS;

BACTROCERA OLEAE; BRACONIDAE; HEXAPODA; OPIUS CONCOLOR; RUMEX; TEPHRITIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 84862204962     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3274     Document Type: Article

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