Ecdysteroids, juvenile hormone and insect neuropeptides: Recent successes and remaining major challenges

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-13

  Loof, Arnold De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DAPIT; Ecdysone; GPCR; Insect hormones; Juvenile hormone; Neuropeptide; Prolactin; Prothoracic gland; Sex hormone

Indexed keywords

BURSICON; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSTEROID; GLYCOPROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHYLFARNESOATE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PIGMENT DISPERSING FACTOR; PUPARIATION FACTOR; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; DIGESTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDING; GENE; HALLOWEEN GENE; HONEYBEE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INKA CELL; INSECT; INSECT CELL; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

EID: 36249021533     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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