Signaling and function of insulin-like peptides in insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-24

  Wu, Qi ^a   Brown, Mark R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Growth; Metabolism; Peptide hormone; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; INSECT PROTEIN; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; LONGEVITY; ORTHOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; INSULIN; INVERTEBRATES; LEPIDOPTERA; LONGEVITY; ORTHOPTERA; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 30844437476     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151011     Document Type: Review

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