Table of Contents
Volume 1
1. Cnidarian Peptide Signaling Molecules
Toshio Takahashi
2. Sex-Inducing Substances Breakdown Dormancy in Planarian Postembryonic Reproductive Development
Kiyono Sekii and Kazuya Kobayashi
3. Fine Tuning of Behaviors through Neuropeptide Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans
William G. Bendena and Ian D. Chin-Sang
4. Annelids Neuro-Endrocrino-Immune Response
Michel Salzet
5. Neuropeptide Signalling in Echinoderms: From “Physiologic Activity of Nerve Extracts” to Neuropeptidomics and Beyond
Maurice R. Elphick
6. Endocrine Control of Gametogenesis and Spawning in Bivalves
Makoto Osada and Toshie Matsumoto
7. Peptidergic Systems in the Pond Snail Lymnaea: From Genes to Hormones and Behavior
Paul R. Benjamin and Ildikó Kemenes
8. A Critical Review of Sex Steroid Hormones and the Induction Mechanisms of Imposex in Gastropod Mollusks
Toshihiro Horiguchi and Yasuhiko Ohta
9. Hormones May Shape Sexual Behavior in Cephalopods
Anna Di Cosmo, Marina Paolucci, and Valeria Maselli
10. Physiological Functions of Gastropod Peptides and Neurotransmitters
Spencer T. Mukai and Fumihiro Morishita
11. Ascidian Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones
Honoo Satake
Volume 2
1. Juvenile Hormone Regulation and Action
C. Rivera-Pérez et al.
2. Molecular Functions of Ecdysteroids in Insects
Naoki Yamanaka and Naoki Okamoto
3. Adipokinetic Hormone: A Hormone for All Seasons?
Heather G. Marco and Gerd Gäde
4. Sex-Related Peptides of Male Insects
R. E. Isaac and S. Sturm
5. Endocrine Control of Pupal Diapause in the Cabbage Army Moth Mamestra brassicae
Akira Mizoguchi
6. Hormonal Control of Diuresis in Insects
Ian Orchard and Angela B. Lange
7. Stayin’ Alive: Endocrinological Stress Responses in Insects
Atsushi Miyashita and Shelley A. Adamo
8. Insect GPCRs and Development of Mimetic Analogs of the Insect Kinin, Pyrokinin-Like and Sulfakinin Neuropeptide Classes as Pest Management Tools
R. J. Nachman