Dopamine is an important catecholamine neurotransmitter in invertebrates and vertebrates.
It is biochemically derived from tyrosine via L-DOPA. It is most abundant in the central …

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) play important roles in cell biology and insects'
physiological processes, toxicological response and the development of insecticide …

Abstract Locusts are grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) that are characterised by their
capacity for extreme population density-dependent polyphenism, transforming between a …

Against a backdrop of food insecurity, the farming of decapod crustaceans is a rapidly
expanding and globally significant source of food protein. Sagmariasus verreauxi spiny …

The migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, shows remarkable phenotypic plasticity at
behavioral, physiological, and morphological levels in response to fluctuation in population …

Sequencing of the honeybee genome revealed many neuropeptides and putative
neuropeptide receptors, yet functional characterization of these peptidic systems is scarce …

The razor clam Sinonovacula constricta is an important commercial species. The deficiency
of developmental transcriptomic data is becoming the bottleneck of further researches on the …

This is the first pharmacological characterisation of a neuropeptide G protein-coupled
receptor (GPCR) in a crustacean. We cloned the ORF of the red pigment-concentrating …

Glycans are involved in many biological phenomena, including signal transduction, cell
adhesion, immune response or differentiation. Although a few papers have reported on the …

Resistance to conventional, small molecule insecticides threatens global efforts to control
arthropod-borne infectious diseases. New insecticidal chemistries with novel modes of …