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The aphid genome contains 5 predicted genes encoding proteins of family SSF (Pfam PF00474), which are sodium-solute cotransporters of the type used by mammals; however, sequence similarities clearly suggest that these proteins are all transporters of short-chain fatty acids, lactate or choline, and not sugars (data not presented). The presence and nature of active sugar transport in aphids thus remains to be characterized, but http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Adriamycin.html a mechanism similar to that operating in mammals is unlikely. The A. pisum genome contains a relatively large number of genes encoding predicted sugar transporters; the only comparable insect is the flour weevil Tribolium confusum. T. confusum is a storage pest which survives on a diet with very low water levels, and thus, similar to A. pisum, has to deal with high sugar concentrations in the gut. A hypothesis can be http://www.selleck.cn/products/LY294002.html advanced that the large number of sugar transporters in aphids results from relatively recent gene duplications as an adaptive response to diet composition. While such a hypothesis is necessarily speculative, it may contribute to developing models for how insects are able to adapt to survive on extreme dietary compositions, and in turn lead to new strategies for producing insecticidal compounds. The 1.0 release of the A. pisum, pea aphid, genome was used as a basis for the bioinformatic analysis, supplemented by the pea aphid EST collection. GLEAN4 predicted genes were searched for coding sequences containing Interpro IPR003663 sugar/inositol transporter signature using HMMER 2.3.2 (Eddy, 1998); http://hmmer.janelia.org). Gene predictions were verified by comparison with ESTs manually, and by assembly of revised gene sequences using Sequencher software (v. 4.2, Genecodes Software). Sequences for genes not predicted by automated methods were completed using genomic scaffold sequences, on the basis of EST sequences. Predicted protein sequences belonging to family Sugar_tr and others (Pfam family PF00083) were analysed individually for the presence of signatures from the Interpro http://www.selleckchem.com/products/obeticholic-acid.html database (Zdobnov & Apweiler, 2001). They were also compared individually with proteins predicted by the D. melanogaster genome database, and with the global protein database, using BlastP software (Altschul et?al., 1990). This analysis identified two groups of proteins which were not sugar transporters: a group of proteins similar to synaptic vesicle proteins, containing Interpro signature IPR005988, and a group of proteins highly similar to organic cation transporters (Blast score