Evolutionary conservation of bursicon in the animal kingdom4394

Last updated on 22-8-2019 by Anonymous (not verified)

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Abstract:

Bursicon bioactivity is essential for tanning of the exoskeleton and for wing spreading behavior that occur in newly emerged adult insects. Previously, we demonstrated that in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, bursicon exists as a heterodimeric cystine knot protein that activates the leucine-rich repeats containing G protein-coupled receptor 2 (DLGR2). By performing similarity based in silico searches in genomic and complementary DNA databases, we identified bursicon homologous sequences in several protostomian as well as deuterostomian invertebrates. In the genome of the honeybee, Ap…

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