Unique Members of the Adipokinetic Hormone Family in Butterflies and Moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera).

ABSTRACT: Lepidoptera is amongst one of the four most speciose insect orders and ecologically very successful because of their ability to fly. Insect flight is always aerobic and exacts a high metabolic demand on the animal. A family of structurally related neuropeptides, generically referred to as adipokinetic hormones (AKHs), play a key role in triggering the release of readily utilizable fuel metabolites into the hemolymph from the storage forms in the fat body. We used mass spectrometry to elucidate AKH sequences from 34 species of Lepidoptera and searched the literature and publicly available databases to compile (in a phylogenetic context) a comprehensive list of all Lepidoptera sequences published/predicted from a total of 76 species. We then used the resulting set of 15 biochemically charact

SUBMITTER: Marco HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7773649 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature