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Brenda Oppert is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on insect science, molecular biology, genetics, plant science, and ecology.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to insect biology and management, with key interests including:

  • Insect Utilization and Effects
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect Pest Control Strategies
  • Celiac Disease Research and Management
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis

Brenda Oppert has published notably in venues such as the Journal of Economic Entomology, Genes, BMC Genomics, Pharmaceutics, and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. The Journal of Economic Entomology stands out as a frequent publication venue with four contributions.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Transcriptome analysis of life stages of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, to improve insect crop production (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), genome: putative underpinnings of polyphagy, insecticide resistance potential and biology of a top worldwide pest (2020) in BMC Genomics
  • Effective Degradation of Gluten and Its Fragments by Gluten-Specific Peptidases: A Review on Application for the Treatment of Patients with Gluten Sensitivity (2021) in Pharmaceutics
  • Human proline specific peptidases: A comprehensive analysis (2020) in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects
  • Genome and Genetic Engineering of the House Cricket (Acheta domesticus): A Resource for Sustainable Agriculture (2023) in Biomolecules

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Elena N. Elpidina, Valeriia F. Tereshchenkova, J. Spencer Johnston, Yakov E. Dunaevsky, and Mikhail A. Belozersky.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Susan J. Brown

  • PROTEINASE-MEDIATED INSECT RESISTANCE TO BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXINS

    Brenda Oppert;Karl J. Kramer;Richard W. Beeman;Donovan Johnson

  • A model species for agricultural pest genomics: The genome of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

    Sean D. Schoville;Yolanda H. Chen;Martin N. Andersson;Joshua B. Benoit

  • Protease interactions with bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal toxins

    Brenda Oppert

  • Altered protoxin activation by midgut enzymes from a Bacillus thuringiensis resistant strain of Plodia interpunctella.

    B. Oppert;K.J. Kramer;D.E. Johnson;S.C. Macintosh

  • Insect Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Alterations in the Indianmeal Moth Larval Gut Proteome

    Mehmet Candas;Olga Loseva;Brenda Oppert;Pradeepa Kosaraju

  • Evaluation of quantitative PCR reference genes for gene expression studies in Tribolium castaneum after fungal challenge.

    Jeffrey C. Lord;Kris Hartzer;Michelle Toutges;Brenda Oppert

  • Comparative analysis of proteinase activities of Bacillus thuringiensis-resistant and -susceptible Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).

    Huarong Li;Brenda Oppert;Randall A Higgins;Fangneng Huang

  • Luminal proteinases from Plodia interpunctella and the hydrolysis of Bacillus thuringiensis CryIA(c) protoxin.

    Brenda Oppert;Karl J. Kramer;Karl J. Kramer;Donovan Johnson;Steve J. Upton

  • Diversity of digestive proteinases in Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae.

    K.S. Vinokurov;E.N. Elpidina;B. Oppert;S. Prabhakar

  • Different mechanisms of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins in the indianmeal moth.

    Salvador Herrero;Brenda Oppert;Juan Ferré

  • A novel Tenebrio molitor cadherin is a functional receptor for Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Aa toxin.

    Jeff Fabrick;Chris Oppert;Marce D. Lorenzen;Kaley Morris

  • Dietary mixtures of cysteine and serine proteinase inhibitors exhibit synergistic toxicity toward the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    Brenda Oppert;Thomas D. Morgan;Christina Culbertson;Karl J. Kramer

  • Effects of proteinase inhibitors on digestive proteinases and growth of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

    B Oppert;T D Morgan;K Hartzer;B Lenarcic

  • Prospecting for cellulolytic activity in insect digestive fluids

    Cris Oppert;William E. Klingeman;Jonathan D. Willis;Brenda Oppert

  • Compensatory proteolytic responses to dietary proteinase inhibitors in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

    B. Oppert;T.D. Morgan;K. Hartzer;K.J. Kramer

  • Analysis of midgut proteinases from Bacillus thuringiensis-susceptible and -resistant Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    Lohitash Karumbaiah;Brenda Oppert;Juan L. Jurat-Fuentes;Michael J. Adang

  • Sequence analysis and molecular characterization of larval midgut cDNA transcripts encoding peptidases from the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L.

    S. Prabhakar;M.-S. Chen;E. N. Elpidina;K. S. Vinokurov

  • Tribolium castaneum Larval Gut Transcriptome and Proteome: A Resource for the Study of the Coleopteran Gut

    Kaley Morris;Marcé D. Lorenzen;Yasuaki Hiromasa;John M. Tomich

  • A chymotrypsin-like proteinase from the midgut of Tenebrio molitor larvae.

    E.N. Elpidina;T.A. Tsybina;Y.E. Dunaevsky;M.A. Belozersky

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl J. Kramer
Karl J. Kramer Kansas State University
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Kun Yan Zhu
Kun Yan Zhu Kansas State University
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew T. Weirauch
Matthew T. Weirauch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Fangneng Huang
Fangneng Huang Louisiana State University
Kim C. Worley
Kim C. Worley Baylor College of Medicine
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine

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