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- Title
Crustacean red pigment-concentrating hormone Panbo-RPCH affects lipid mobilization and walking activity in a flightless bug Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera) similarly to its own AKH-peptides.
- Authors
Socha, Radomír; Kodrík, Dalibor; Zemek, Rostislav
- Abstract
In the present study we tested whether the walking activity of macropterous females of the flightless wing-polymorphic bug Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) can be stimulated by its native adipokinetic hormone Peram-CAH-II and the crustacean red pigmentconcentrating hormone (Panbo-RPCH), and the effectiveness of the latter hormone in a lipid mobilization assay. Two different doses (10 or 40 pmol) of Peram-CAH-II or Panbo-RCPH were injected into 10-day-old macropterous females of P. apterus to evaluate their effects on the walking activity of treated females. The results obtained showed a significant stimulation of walking activity only with the lower dose (10 pmol) of either hormone Peram-CAH-II or Panbo-RPCH. On the contrary, the walking activity of the same-aged females of macropterous morph treated with the higher dose (40 pmol) of these hormones was decreased. The energy substrates mobilized in Panbo-RPCH-treated macropterous females were lipids. The question of whether the stimulation of locomotion by Panbo-RPCH is limited only to P. apterus or if it might also represent an important function of this hormone in other insects or even in crustaceans is discussed.
- Subjects
LIPOTROPIN; HORMONES; LOCOMOTION; ENDOCRINE glands; ENDOCRINE system; LIPIDS; BIOMOLECULES; GENETICS
- Publication
European Journal of Entomology, 2007, Vol 104, Issue 4, p685
- ISSN
1210-5759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14411/eje.2007.086