Studies of neuropeptide and peptide hormone signaling are coming of age in Drosophila
due to rapid developments in molecular genetics approaches that overcome the difficulties …

Apart from providing an up-to-date review of the literature, considerable emphasis was
placed in this article on the historical development of the field of “crustacean eyestalk …

Neuropeptides in insects act as neuromodulators in the central and peripheral nervous
system and as regulatory hormones released into the circulation. The functional roles of …

Early studies recognizing the importance of the decapod eyestalk in the endocrine
regulation of crustacean physiology—molting, metabolism, reproduction, osmotic balance …

The sodium pump, or Na++ K+-ATPase, provides at least part of the driving force for
transepithelial movement of monovalent ions across the gills and other transporting tissues …

Neuroendocrine control mechanisms are observed in all animals that possess a nervous
system. Recent analyses of neuroendocrine functions in invertebrate model systems reveal …

Crustaceans have long been used for peptide research. For example, the process of
neurosecretion was first formally demonstrated in the crustacean X-organ–sinus gland …

The removal of the eyestalk (s) induces molting and reproduction promoted the presence of
regulatory substances in the eyestalk (ES), particularly medulla terminalis X-organ and the …

In crustaceans, neuroendocrine centers are located in different structures of the nervous
system. One of these structures, the X-organ–sinus gland complex of the eyestalk, produces …

We report 43 novel genes in the water flea Daphnia pulex encoding 73 predicted
neuropeptide and protein hormones as partly confirmed by RT-PCR. MALDI-TOF mass …