Sleep is an essential and evolutionarily conserved behavior that is modulated by many
environmental factors. Ambient temperature shifting usually occurs during climatic or …

It has been known for more than 40 years that individual neurons can produce more than
one neurotransmitter and that neuropeptides often are colocalized with small molecule …

In this review we trace the evolutionary connections between GnRH receptors from
vertebrates and the receptors for adipokinetic hormone (AKH), AKH/corazonin-related …

The link between the biological clock and reproduction is evident in most metazoans. The
fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a key model organism in the field of chronobiology …

Mechanisms of glucose homeostasis are remarkably well conserved between the fruit fly
Drosophila melanogaster and mammals. From the initial characterization of insulin signaling …

The effects of sucrose in varied concentrations (0.25–20%) with constant amount of yeasts in
larval diet on development and metabolic parameters of adult fruit fly Drosophila …

The invertebrate blood-brain barrier (BBB) field is growing at a rapid pace and, in recent
years, studies have shown a physiologic and molecular complexity that has begun to rival its …

Animal behavior is, on the one hand, controlled by neuronal circuits that integrate external
sensory stimuli and induce appropriate motor responses. On the other hand, stimulus …

The monoamines octopamine and tyramine, which are the invertebrate counterparts of
epinephrine and norepinephrine, transmit their action through sets of G protein-coupled …

Fruit flies have eight identified Drosophila insulin-like peptides (DILPs) that are involved in
the regulation of carbohydrate concentrations in hemolymph as well as in accumulation of …