Insect Hormones

Insect Hormones
Gerald Litwack, ed.
Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005
Call# QL495 .I4915 2005

From Elsevier:

"Audience:
Endocrinologists, biochemists, researchers, professors, and graduate students studying the molecular and cellular biology of vitamins, hormones, and related factors and co-factors. In particular for this volume: biochemists and molecular geneticists as well as all researchers and students, who focus on the topic of insect hormones

Contents
1. Hormonal Control of Ecdysis: Endocrine Cascades for Coordinating Behavior with Physiology; 2. A Molecular Genetic Approach to the Biosynthesis of the Insect Steroid Molting Hormone; 3. Ecdysteroid Receptors and their Applications in Agriculture and Medicine; 4. Ligand Binding Pocket of the Ecdysone Receptor; 5. Non-steroidal Ecdysone Agonists; 6. Juvenile Hormone Molecular Actions and Interactions during Development of Drosophila melanogaster; 7. Insect Neuropeptide and Peptide Hormone Receptors: Current Knowledge and Future Directions"