The role of octopamine in locusts and other arthropods

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 854-867

  Verlinden, Heleen ^a   Vleugels, Rut ^a   Marchal, Elisabeth ^a   Badisco, Liesbeth ^a   Pflüger, Hans Joachim ^b   Blenau, Wolfgang ^c   Broeck, Jozef Vanden ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Biogenic amine; Insect; Phase transition; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; OCTOPAMINE; TYRAMINE;

ACARICIDE; INSECTICIDE; LOCUST; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PEST SPECIES; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GRASSHOPPER; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; GRASSHOPPERS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OCTOPAMINE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TYRAMINE;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954348442     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.05.018     Document Type: Review

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