… Lepidoptera often produce amylase in their salivary glands in addition to midgut, which
may be excreted through the mouth, eg, in Sesamia nonagrioides (Noctuidae) (Da Lage, …

In this study, the phylogenetic relationships of 164 species of the family Drosophilidae are
discussed, using the Amyrel gene, a member of the α‐amylase multigene family. This study …

The functional and structural adaptations to temperature have been addressed in homologous
chloride-dependent α-amylases from a psychrophilic Antarctic bacterium, the ectothermic …

… J.-LDL and GF thank the CNRS and the CGRI-FNRS for financial support… 4 Da Lage J.-L.,
van Wormhoudt A. and Cariou M.-… and Sevcik J. (1999) The evolution of starch-binding domain. …

Background Increasing genome data show that introns, a hallmark of eukaryotes, already
existed at a high density in the last common ancestor of extant eukaryotes. However, intron …

A molecular phylogeny for the drosophilid genus Zaprionus was inferred using a mitochondrial
(CO-II) and a nuclear (Amyrel) gene using 22 available species. The combined molecular …

We have used two paralogous genes (Amyrel and Amy) of the amylase multigene family to
reconstruct the phylogeny of the nine Drosophila melanogaster subgroup sister species, …

Alpha-amylases are widely found in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Few amino acids are
conserved among these organisms, but at an intra-kingdom level, conserved protein domains …

The Mediterranean corn borer (Sesamia nonagrioides, Noctuidae, Lepidoptera) is a major
pest of maize in Europe and Africa. Here, we report an assembly of the nuclear and …

… These four genes are organized as two genetically independent clusters (DA LAGE et al., …
, which is also present in a number of Drosophila species (DA LAGE et al., 1998). Amyrel is …