Neuropeptides from a praying mantis: what the loss of pyrokinins and tryptopyrokinins suggests about the endocrine functions of these peptides.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neuropeptides play important roles in insects, but in many cases their functions remain obscure. Comparative neuropeptidome analyses may provide clues to what these functions might be. Praying mantises are predators and close relatives of cockroaches that are scavengers. Cockroach neuropeptidomes are well established, but little is known about mantis neuropeptides. The recently published genome assembly of the praying mantis Tenodera sinensis makes it Possible to change that.

Methods

The genome assembly from T. sinensis was analyzed for the presence of genes coding neuropeptides. For comparison, publicly available short read archives from this and other mantis species were also examined for the presence and expression of neuropeptides.

Results

SUBMITTER: Veenstra JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874938 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature