Four-way regulation of mosquito yolk protein precursor genes by juvenile hormone-, ecdysone-, nutrient-, and insulin-like peptide signaling pathways. [PDF]
, 2014 Anautogenous mosquito females require a meal of vertebrate blood in order to initiate the production of yolk protein precursors by the fat body. Yolk protein precursor gene expression is tightly repressed in a state-of-arrest before blood meal-related ...
Attardo, Geoffrey M +3 more
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Leucokinins: Multifunctional Neuropeptides and Hormones in Insects and Other Invertebrates [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 Leucokinins (LKs) constitute a neuropeptide family first discovered in a cockroach and later identified in numerous insects and several other invertebrates. The LK receptors are only distantly related to other known receptors. Among insects, there are many examples of species where genes encoding LKs and their receptors are absent.
Dick R. Nässel, Shun-Fan Wu
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The microbiome of the invertebrate model host Galleria mellonella is dominated by Enterococcus
Animal Microbiome, 2019 Background The popularity of Galleria mellonella as invertebrate model is increasing rapidly, because it forms an attractive alternative to study bacterial, fungal and viral infections, toxin biology, and to screen antimicrobial drugs.
Camille Nina Allonsius +4 more
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The neuropeptide transcriptome of a model echinoderm, the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus [PDF]
, 2012 The work reported here was supported by a grant from the University of London Central Research ...
Elphick, MR, Rowe, ML
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 The identification of structurally related hypothalamic hormones that regulate blood pressure and diuresis (vasopressin, VP; CYFQNCPRG-NH2) or lactation and uterine contraction (oxytocin, OT; CYIQNCPLG-NH2) was a major advance in neuroendocrinology ...
Esther A. Odekunle, Maurice R. Elphick
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Adipokinetic hormone enhances laminarin and bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of the prophenoloxidase cascade in the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria [PDF]
, 2002 Lom-AKH-I enhances the activation in vivo of prophenoloxidase in the haemolymph of the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, in response to challenge with laminarin.
Brehelin +23 more
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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2017 Hormones control various metabolic traits comprising fat deposition or starvation resistance. Here we show that two invertebrate neurohormones, octopamine (OA) and tyramine (TA) as well as their associated receptors, had a major impact on these metabolic
Yong Li +11 more
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Interactions between the endocrine and immune systems in locusts [PDF]
, 2003 The prophenoloxidase cascade in the haemolymph of mature adult Locusta migratoria migratorioides (R & F) is activated in response to injection of laminarin, a -1,3 glucan.
Chandrakant, S. +3 more
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Conservation of progesterone hormone function in invertebrate reproduction [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 Steroids play fundamental roles regulating mammalian reproduction and development. Although sex steroids and their receptors are well characterized in vertebrates and several arthropod invertebrates, little is known about the hormones and receptors regulating reproduction in other invertebrate species.
E Paige, Stout +4 more
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Trade-offs between personal immunity and reproduction in the burying beetle, N. vespilloides [PDF]
, 2014 We know that parental investment and immune investment are costly processes, but it is unclear which trait will be prioritised when both may be required.
Cotter, Sheena C. +3 more
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