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List of works by Jan A Veenstra

A comparative study of leucokinin-immunoreactive neurons in insects

scientific article published in April 1994

A single cDNA encodes all three Aedes leucokinins, which stimulate both fluid secretion by the malpighian tubules and hindgut contractions.

scientific article published on April 1997

AKH-producing neuroendocrine cell ablation decreases trehalose and induces behavioral changes in Drosophila

scientific article published on 16 September 2004

Adipokinetic hormone and AKH-like peptide demonstrated in the corpora cardiaca and nervous system of Locusta migratoria by immunocytochemistry

scientific article published in January 1983

Adipokinetic hormone-immunoreactive peptide in the endocrine and central nervous system of several insect species: a comparative immunocytochemical approach

scientific article published in February 1985

Allatostatin C and its paralog allatostatin double C: the arthropod somatostatins

scientific article published on 27 November 2008

Allatostatin-like-immunoreactive neurons of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, and isolation and identification of a new neuropeptide related to cockroach allatostatins.

scientific article published on August 1997

Allatostatins C, double C and triple C, the result of a local gene triplication in an ancestral arthropod

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Allatotropin, leucokinin and AKH in honey bees and other Hymenoptera

scientific article published on 3 March 2012

Chemical identity, function and regulation of enteroendocrine peptides in insects.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Coleoptera genome and transcriptome sequences reveal numerous differences in neuropeptide signaling between species

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Control of lipid metabolism by tachykinin in Drosophila.

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Detailed analysis of leucokinin-expressing neurons and their candidate functions in the Drosophila nervous system.

scientific article published on 26 November 2009

Diversity in neurohaemal organs for homologous neurosecretory cells in different insect species as demonstrated by immunocytochemistry with an antiserum to molluscan cardioexcitatory peptide

scientific article published on January 1987

Does corazonin signal nutritional stress in insects?

scientific article published on 06 October 2009

Drosophila insulin-like peptide 1 (DILP1) is transiently expressed during non-feeding stages and reproductive dormancy.

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Drosophila insulin-like peptide dilp1 increases lifespan and glucagon-like Akh expression epistatic to dilp2

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Ecdysone receptor homologs from mollusks, leeches and a polychaete worm

scientific article published on 8 October 2010

Expression of the mu opioid receptor in Drosophila and its effects on trehalose and glycogen when expressed by the AKH neuroendocrine cells

scientific article published on 24 April 2010

Functional significance of the copper transporter ATP7 in peptidergic neurons and endocrine cells in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

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Genomics- and Peptidomics-Based Discovery of Conserved and Novel Neuropeptides in the American Cockroach

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Identification of three allatostatins and their cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

scientific article published on January 1997

Immunocytochemical demonstration of a homology in peptidergic neurosecretory cells in the suboesophageal ganglion of a beetle and a locust with antisera to bovine pancreatic polypeptide, FMRFamide, vasopressin and α-MSH

scientific article published on July 27, 1984

Immunocytochemical demonstration of vertebrate peptides in invertebrates: the homology concept

scientific article published on August 1988

Immunocytochemical identification of neural elements in the central nervous systems of a snail, some insects, a fish, and a mammal with an antiserum to the molluscan cardio-excitatory tetrapeptide FMRF-amide

scientific article published on January 1980

Immunocytochemical localization of gastrin-releasing peptide/bombesin-like immunoreactive neurons in insects

scientific article published in January 1984

Immunocytochemical localization of neurons in the nervous system of the Colorado potato beetle with antisera against FMRFamide and bovine pancreatic polypeptide

scientific article published on January 1984

Immunocytochemical localization of peptidergic cells in the neuro-endocrine system of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, with antisera against vasopressin, vasotocin and oxytocin

scientific article published on January 1984

Immunocytochemical localization of peptidergic neurons and neurosecretory cells in the neuro-endocrine system of the Colorado potato beetle with antisera to vertebrate regulatory peptides

scientific article published on January 1985

Immunohistological localization of regulatory peptides in the midgut of the female mosquito Aedes aegypti

scientific article published in November 1995

In silico cloning of genes encoding neuropeptides, neurohormones and their putative G-protein coupled receptors in a spider mite

scientific article published on 28 December 2011

Intrinsic neurons of Drosophila mushroom bodies express short neuropeptide F: relations to extrinsic neurons expressing different neurotransmitters

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Isoform-specific expression of the neuropeptide orcokinin in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Isolation and identification of a peptide and its cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti related to Manduca sexta allatotropin

scientific article published on January 1999

Isolation and identification of three leucokinins from the mosquito Aedes aegypti

scientific article published in July 1994

Isolation and structure of corazonin, a cardioactive peptide from the American cockroach

scientific article published in July 1989

Isolation and structure of the Drosophila corazonin gene.

scientific article published on October 1994

Isolation and structure of two gastrin/CCK-like neuropeptides from the American cockroach homologous to the leucosulfakinins

scientific article published in October 1989

Isolation of a novel RFamide peptide from the midgut of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana

scientific article published in August 1995

Isolation of two AKH‐related peptides from cicadas

scientific article published on January 1, 1995

Leucokinin and diuretic hormone immunoreactivity of neurons in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, and co-localization of this immunoreactivity in lateral neurosecretory cells of abdominal ganglia

scientific article published on December 1994

Localization of corazonin in the nervous system of the cockroach Periplaneta americana

scientific article published in October 1993

Mapping peptidergic cells in Drosophila: where DIMM fits in.

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Mas-allatotropin/Lom-AG-myotropin I immunostaining in the brain of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria.

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More Drosophila enteroendocrine peptides: Orcokinin B and the CCHamides 1 and 2.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Most lepidopteran neuroparsin genes seem functional, but in some domesticated silkworm strains it has a fatal mutation

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Neuroendocrine cells in Drosophila melanogaster producing GPA2/GPB5, a hormone with homology to LH, FSH and TSH.

scientific article published on 28 November 2010

Neurohormones and neuropeptides encoded by the genome of Lottia gigantea, with reference to other mollusks and insects

scientific article published on 18 February 2010

Neuropeptide Evolution: Chelicerate Neurohormone and Neuropeptide Genes may reflect one or more whole genome duplications.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Neuropeptide evolution: Chelicerate neurohormone and neuropeptide genes may reflect one or more whole genome duplications

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Neuropeptide evolution: neurohormones and neuropeptides predicted from the genomes of Capitella teleta and Helobdella robusta

scientific article published on 15 January 2011

Ovary maturing parsin and diuretic hormone are produced by the same neuroendocrine cells in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria

scientific article published in May 2000

Peptidergic paracrine and endocrine cells in the midgut of the fruit fly maggot

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Postembryonic development of corazonin-containing neurons and neurosecretory cells in the blowfly, Phormia terraenovae

scientific article published in December 1994

Presence of corazonin in three insect species, and isolation and identification of [His7]corazonin from Schistocerca americana

scientific article published on November 1, 1991

Regulatory peptides in fruit fly midgut

scientific article published on 30 October 2008

Reprint of "The distribution and physiological effects of three evolutionarily and sequence-related neuropeptides in Rhodnius prolixus: Adipokinetic hormone, corazonin and adipokinetic hormone/corazonin-related peptide".

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Rudimentary expression of RYamide in Drosophila melanogaster relative to other Drosophila species points to a functional decline of this neuropeptide gene

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SIFamide acts on fruitless neurons to modulate sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Sequence and evolution of a hexamerin from the ant Camponotus festinatus

scientific article published in August 2000

Similarities between decapod and insect neuropeptidomes.

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Simulation of the activation of fat body glycogen phosphorylase and trehalose synthesis by peptide hormones in the American cockroach

scientific article published in January 1989

Stimulation of JH biosynthesis by the corpora allata of adult female Aedes aegypti in vitro: effect of farnesoic acid and Aedes allatotropin.

scientific article published on June 2003

Structure of the hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

scientific article published on February 1990

Suppression of egg-laying during starvation in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis by inhibition of the ovulation hormone producing caudo-dorsal cells

scientific article published in May 1982

The Dh gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a diuretic peptide that acts through cyclic AMP.

scientific article published in December 2002

The TRH-ortholog EFLamide in the migratory locust

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

The contribution of the genomes of a termite and a locust to our understanding of insect neuropeptides and neurohormones

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The distribution and physiological effects of three evolutionarily and sequence-related neuropeptides in Rhodnius prolixus: Adipokinetic hormone, corazonin and adipokinetic hormone/corazonin-related peptide.

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The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations

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The neuropeptide SIFamide modulates sexual behavior in Drosophila.

scientific article published on 15 November 2006

The power of next-generation sequencing as illustrated by the neuropeptidome of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii

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The salivary gland salivation stimulating peptide from Locusta migratoria (Lom-SG-SASP) is not a typical neuropeptide

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Two Lys-vasopressin-like peptides, EFLamide, and other phasmid neuropeptides

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Two nitridergic peptides are encoded by the gene capability in Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article published on May 2002

What the loss of the hormone neuroparsin in the melanogaster subgroup of Drosophila can tell us about its function

scientific article published on 10 March 2010