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Neuropeptide and neurohormone precursors in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.
Insect molecular biology - 1 Mar 2010
Huybrechts J, Bonhomme J, Minoli S, Prunier-Leterme N, Dombrovsky A, Abdel-Latief M, Robichon A, Veenstra J A, Tagu D
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Aphids respond to environmental changes by developing alternative phenotypes with differing reproductive modes. Parthenogenetic reproduction occurs in spring and summer, whereas decreasing day lengths in autumn provoke the production of sexual forms. Changing environmental signals are relayed by brain neuroendocrine signals to the ovarioles. We combined bioinformatic analyses with brain peptidomics and cDNA...
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