A new member of the AKH/RPCH family that stimulates locomotory activity in the firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 489-498

  Kodrík, Dalibor ^a   Socha, Radomír ^a   Šimek, Petr ^a   Zemek, Rostislav ^a   Goldsworthy, Graham J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adipokinetic hormone; AKH RPCH; Bug; Electrospray mass spectrometry; HPLC; Lipid mobilisation; Locomotory activity; Neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

ADIPOKINETIC HORMONE; INSECT HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RED PIGMENT-CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; HORMONE STRUCTURE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; HETEROPTERA; INSECT HORMONES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID;

EID: 0034040941     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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