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Journal of Invertebrate Pathology Volume 99, Number 2, October 2008 CONTENTS Regular articles Xiao-Mu Ma, Xiao-Xia Liu, Xia Ning, Bo Zhang, Fei Han, Xiu-Min Guan, Yun-Feng Tan, QingWen Zhang. Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Ac and Beauveria bassiana on Asiatic corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) ................................................................................................................ 123 Andrea L. Battison, Béatrice M. Després, Spencer J. Greenwood. Ulcerative enteritis in Homarus americanus: Case report and molecular characterization of intestinal aerobic bacteria of apparently healthy lobsters in live storage ....................................................................................................... 129 Yoshifumi Hashimoto, Steven M. Valles. Infection characteristics of Solenopsis invicta virus 2 in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta ................................................................................................... 136 Nagaraj M. Gowda, Usha Goswami, M. Islam Khan. T-antigen binding lectin with antibacterial activity from marine invertebrate, sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra): Possible involvement in differential recognition of bacteria ..................................................................................................................... 141 Gernot Hoch, Vincent DÕAmico, Leellen F. Solter, Milan Zubrik, Michael L. McManus. Quantifying horizontal transmission of Nosema lymantriae, a microsporidian pathogen of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (Lep., Lymantriidae) in field cage studies................................................................... 146 Zhenlun Li, Chutao Wang, Yuxian Xia. Isolation of two Locust protein targets of a protein tyrosine phosphatase from Metarhizium anisopliae strain CQMa102 .................................................................. 151 Guillermo A. Blanco, Emilio L. Malchiodi, Mauricio C. De Marzi. Cellular clot formation in a sipunculan worm: Entrapment of foreign particles, cell death and identification of a PGRP-related protein 156 Ross Milne, Yuehong Liu, Debbie Gauthier, Kees van Frankenhuyzen. Purification of Vip3Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis HD-1 and its contribution to toxicity of HD-1 to spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) and gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) (Lepidoptera)................................................... 166 Eustachio Tarasco, Zdenek Mrácˇek, Khuong B. Nguyen, Oreste Triggiani. Steinernema ichnusae sp. n. (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) a new entomopathogenic nematode from Sardinia Island (Italy) 173 Ma-li Wu, Gong-yin Ye, Jia-ying Zhu, Xue-xin Chen, Cui Hu. Isolation and characterization of an immunosuppressive protein from venom of the pupa-specific endoparasitoid Pteromalus puparum 186 Ben Hanelt, Cheng Man Lun, Coen M Adema. Comparative ORESTES-sampling of transcriptomes of immune-challenged Biomphalaria glabrata snails ................................................................................... 192 Jean-Louis Zeddam, Katerine Orbe, Xavier Léry, Olivier Dangles, Stéphane Dupas, JeanFrançois Silvain. An isometric virus of the potato tuber moth Tecia solanivora (Povolny) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) has a tri-segmented RNA genome ...................................................................... 204 Kyung-Il Park, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Jae-Sang Hong, Kwang-Sik Choi. Pathology survey of the shortneck clam Ruditapes philippinarum occurring on sandy tidal flats along the coast of Ariake Bay, Kyushu, Japan............................................................................................................................................... 212

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Monica Pava-Ripoll, Francisco J. Posada, Bahram Momen, Chengshu Wang, Raymond St. Leger. Increased pathogenicity against coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Metarhizium anisopliae expressing the scorpion toxin (AaIT) gene ........................................ 220 Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Eugene M. Fuzy. Attraction of four entomopathogenic nematodes to four white grub species....................................................................................................................................... 227 Short communications Handeng Liu, Guoqing Pan, Shihong Song, Jinshan Xu, Tian Li, Yanbo Deng, Zeyang Zhou. Multiple rDNA units distributed on all chromosomes of Nosema bombycis ....................................................... 235 Roshan K. Vijendravarma, H. Charles J. Godfray, Alex R Kraaijeveld. Infection of Drosophila melanogaster by Tubulinosema kingi: Stage-specific susceptibility and within-host proliferation ............... 239 Mi-Hau Tsai, Li-Cheng Tang, Roger F. Hou. The bacterium associated with the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema abbasi (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) isolated from Taiwan ....................... 242

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