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Identification of the gregarization-associated dark-pigmentotropin in locusts through an albino mutant.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jun 1999
Tawfik A I, Tanaka S, De Loof A, Schoofs L, Baggerman G, Waelkens E, Derua R, Milner Y, Yerushalmi Y, Pener M P
Abstract excerpt
In response to crowding, locusts develop characteristic black patterns that are well discernible in the gregarious phase at outbreaks. We report here a dark-color-inducing neuropeptide (dark-pigmentotropin) from the corpora cardiaca of two plague locusts, Schistocerca gregaria and Locusta migratoria. The chromatographic isolation of this neuropeptide was monitored by using a bioassay with an albino mutant of L....
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