Effects of selected neuropeptides, mating status and castration on male reproductive tract movements and immunolocalization of neuropeptides in earwigs

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-90

  Rankin, Susan M ^a   TeBrugge, Victoria A ^b   Murray, Jill A ^a   Schuler, Ashley M ^a   Tobe, Stephen S ^b  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allatostatin; Earwigs; Immunochemistry; Proctolin; Reproductive tract motility

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROCTOLIN;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN GANGLION; CASTRATION; COCKROACH; EARWIG; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSECT; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

BLATTARIA; DERMAPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 56649091207     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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