Rhythmic release of prothoracicotropic hormone from the brain of an adult insect during egg development

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-200

  Vafopoulou, Xanthe ^a   Cardinal Aucoin, Michael ^a   Steel, Colin G H ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombyxin; Brain clocks; Endocrine rhythms; Oviposition; Temporal order

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTHORACIC GLAND; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RHYTHM; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS;

EID: 83555179082     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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