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 …

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 …

Neuropeptides play critical roles in synaptic signaling in all nervous systems. Unlike
classical neurotransmitters, peptidergic neurotransmitters are encoded as preproproteins …

Neuropeptides have diverse roles in the function and development of the nervous system.
With the completion of the sequencing of the C. elegans genome, rapid identification of …

Peptides with sequence similarities to members of the tachykinin family have been identified
in a number of invertebrates belonging to the mollusca, echiuridea, insecta and crustacea …

During the computations performed by the nervous system, its 'wiring diagram'—the map of
its neurons and synaptic connections—is dynamically modified and supplemented by …

Neuropeptides are a diverse class of intercellular signalling molecules that mediate
neuronal regulation of many physiological and behavioural processes. Recent advances in …

All the classical transmitter ligand molecules evolved at least 1000 million years ago. With
the possible exception of the Porifera and coelenterates (Cnidaria), they occur in all the …

We use a multidisciplinary approach to identify, map, and characterize the bioactivity of
modulatory neuropeptides in the circuitry that generates feeding behavior in Aplysia. Matrix …

The nervous system issues motor commands to muscles to generate behavior. All such
commands must, however, pass through a filter that we call here the neuromuscular …