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 …

Neuropeptides and protein hormones are ancient molecules that mediate cell-to-cell
communication. The whole genome sequence from the red flour beetle Tribolium …

Proteomics, the large‐scale study of protein expression in organisms, offers the potential to
evaluate global changes in protein expression and their post‐translational modifications that …

As a model hemimetabolous insect species and an invasive urban pest that is globally
distributed, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, is of great interest in both basic …

Background Neuropeptides are key players in information transfer and act as important
regulators of development, growth, metabolism, and reproduction within multi-cellular …

Formalin-fixed neuroendocrine tissues from American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana)
embedded in paraffin more than 30 years ago were recently analyzed by matrix-assisted …

Neuropeptides are important controlling agents in animal physiology. In order to understand
their role and the ways in which neuropeptides behave and interact with one another …

To cope with stressful events such as flight, organisms have evolved various regulatory
mechanisms, often involving control by endocrine-derived factors. In insects, two stress …

Background Neuropeptide ligands have to fit exactly into their respective receptors and thus
the evolution of the coding regions of their genes is constrained and may be strongly …

In the recent decade, tremendous progress has been realized in insect endocrinology as the
result of the application of a variety of advanced methods in neuropeptidome-and receptor …