The article discusses advances in osmoregulation and excretion with emphasis on how
multicellular animals in different osmotic environments regulate their milieu intérieur …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Rhodnius prolixus (the kissing bug and a major vector of Chagas disease) is an obligate
blood feeder that in the case of the fifth instar consumes up to 10 times its unfed body weight …

Diuresis following blood-gorging in Rhodnius prolixus is the major process leading to the
transmission of Chagas' disease. We have cloned the cDNA of the first receptor known to be …

Epithelial ion transport is essential to renal homeostatic function, and it is dysregulated in
several diseases, such as hypertension. An understanding of the insect renal (Malpighian) …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the hormonal controllers of the supply of
endogenous metabolic energy and the hormonal control of fluid and electrolyte balance …

In the kissing bug Rhodnius prolixus, events such as diuresis, antidiuresis, development and
reproduction are triggered by blood feeding. Hence, these events can be accurately timed …

Recent studies have identified paracrine and endocrine cells in the midgut of larval
Drosophila melanogaster as well as midgut and hindgut receptors for multiple …

The capa peptide family, originally identified in the tobacco hawk moth, Manduca sexta, is
now known to be present in many insect families, with increasing publications on capa …

The capability or capa gene, encodes a pyrokinin-related peptide (known as pyrokinin-1,
PK1) that contains the consensus carboxy-terminal sequence of WFGPRL–NH2. Although …