Browsing School of Health Science and Technology by Author "Baumann, Aaron A"

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Juvenile hormone and insulin suppress lipolysis between periods of lactation during tsetse fly pregnancy

Baumann, Aaron A; Benoit, Joshua B; Michalkova, Veronika; Mireji, Paul O; Attardo, Geoffrey M; Moulton, John K; Wilson, Thomas G; Aksoy, Serap (Elsevier, 2013)

Tsetse flies are viviparous insects that nurture a single intrauterine progeny per gonotrophic cycle. The developing larva is nourished by the lipid-rich, milk-like secretions from a modified female accessory gland (milk ...
A Novel Highly Divergent Protein Family Identified from a Viviparous Insect by RNA-seq Analysis: A Potential Target for Tsetse Fly-Specific Abortifacients

Benoit, Joshua B.; Attardo, Geoffrey M; Michalkova, Veronika; Krause, Tyler B; Bohova, Jana; Zhang, Qirui; Baumann, Aaron A; Mireji, PO; Takáč, Peter; Denlinger, David L; Ribeiro, Jose M; Aksoy, Serap (2014)

In tsetse flies, nutrients for intrauterine larval development are synthesized by the modified accessory gland (milk gland) and provided in mother's milk during lactation. Interference with at least two milk proteins has ...

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