... their food intake more slowly than sitters, and rover hemolymph levels take longer to respond to re-feeding. Finally, rovers have lower adipokinetic hormone (akh) mRNA levels than sitters. Our data suggest that for mediates larval responses to short-term food deprivation by altering food intake and blood...

... in adipokinetic hormone I (AKH I) and AKH II biosynthesis. At different stages of postembryonic development, the relative amounts of the two transcripts (AKH I mRNA and AKH II mRNA) change in parallel with the relative rates of synthesis of proAKH I and proAKH II. Differential regulation of transcript expression...

... in the stomatogastric ganglion (STG), and in somata in the oesophageal ganglion and commissural ganglia. Staining was blocked by preincubating the antiserum with RPCH, as well as with a number of adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) and related peptides. Synthetic RPCH had strong actions on the pyloric rhythm of the isolated...