Reconstruction of ancestral FGLamide-type insect allatostatins: A novel approach to the study of allatostatin function and evolution

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 959-968

  Hult, Ekaterina F ^a   Weadick, Cameron J ^a   Chang, Belinda S W ^a   Tobe, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allatostatin; Ancestral peptide reconstruction; Diploptera punctata; Juvenile hormone; Periplaneta americana; Radiochemical assay

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID; ANCESTRY; COCKROACH; GENE; JUVENILE; PEPTIDE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COCKROACH; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RADIOCHEMISTRY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BLATTARIA; DIPLOPTERA PUNCTATA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 44749087449     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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