Excitatory and inhibitory roles of central ganglia in initiation of the insect ecdysis behavioural sequence

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 203, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1329-1340

  Žitňan, Dušan ^a,b   Adams, Michael E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic GMP; Ecdysis; Ecdysis triggering hormone; Eclosion hormone; Insect; Manduca sexta; Pre ecdysis triggering hormone; Tobacco hornworm

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; INSECT HORMONE; MANDUCA SEXTA ECDYSIS TRIGGERING HORMONE; MANDUCA SEXTA ECDYSIS-TRIGGERING HORMONE; PEPTIDE; PREECDYSIS TRIGGERING HORMONE; PREECDYSIS-TRIGGERING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GANGLION; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLTING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC GMP; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INSECT HORMONES; MANDUCA; MOLTING; PEPTIDES;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0343963288     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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