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Neuropeptides of the silkworm, Bombyx mori
1Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Experientia
|May 15, 1992
Abstract:
Six neuropeptides of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, have been isolated and chemically characterized during the past 10 years. They are bombyxin, prothoracicotropic hormone, pheromone-biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide/melanization-and-reddish-coloration hormone, diapause hormone, eclosion hormone, and adipokinetic hormone. Recent progress in research on these neuropeptides is described.