Recent Advances in Arthropod Endocrinology

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Part I. Moulting, Metamorphosis and Reproduction: 1. Structures, functions and occurence of insect allatostatic peptides R. J. Weaver, J. P. Edwards, W. G. Bendena, and S. S. Tobe 2. Neuropeptides inhibiting growth and reproduction of crustaceans S. G. Webster 3. Molecular, cytological and physiological aspects of the crustacean hyperglycemic hormone family F. Van Herp 4. Endocrine effectors in insect vitellogenesis X. Belles 5. Endocrine regulation of development and reproduction in Acarines L. O. Lomas, and H. H. Rees 6. Ecdysteroid synthesis in the crustacean Y-organ: role of cyclic nucleotides and Ca 2+ D. Sedlmeier, and A. Seinsche 7. Regulation of steroidogenesis: role of transaldolase in crab moulting glands F. Lachaise, and G. Somme Part II. Control of Intermediary Metabolism, Ion and Water Balance: 8. New perspectives on the structures, assays and actions of locust adipokinetic hormones M. J. Lee, and G. J. Goldsworthy 9. Signal transduction of adipokinetic hormone W. J. A. Van Marrewijk, and D. J. Van der Horst 10. The regulation of primary urine production in insects G. M. Coast 11. Locust ion transport peptide (ITP): function, structure, DNA and expression J. E. Phillips, J. Meredith, N. Audsley, M. Ring, A. Macins, H. Brock, D. Theilmann, and D. Littleford Part III. Myotropic and Myoininhibitory Arthropod Neuropeptides: Structures and Functions?: 12. The dipteran Leu-callatostatins: structural and functional diversity in an insect neuroendocrine peptide family H. Duve, A. Thorpe, A. H. Johnsen, J-L. Maestro, A. G. Scott, and P. D. East 13. An insect peptide family in search of functions the tachykinin-related peptides D. R. Nassel, C. T. Lundquist, J. E. Muren, and A. S. A. Winther 14. The distribution, biological activity, and pharmacology of SchistoFLRFamide and related peptides in insects I. Orchard, and A. B. Lange 15. Ontogenetic, phylogenetic and physiological aspects of the conserved crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP) neural networks in arthropods H. Dirksen 16. Control of the insect oviduct: the role of the neuropeptide CCAP in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta A. K. Marshall, and S. E. Reynolds Part IV. Peptidases, Peptide and Pseudopeptide Mimetics: Toward New Strategies of Insect Pest Control?: 17. Insect angiotensim-converting enzyme: comparative biochemistry and evolution R. E. Isaaac, D. Coates, T. A. Williams, and L. Schoofs 18. Mimetic analogues of the myotropic diuretic insect kinin neuropeptide family R. J. Nachman, G. M. Holman, and G. M. Coast.