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Glendinning S, Fitzgibbon QP, Smith GG, Ventura T. Unravelling the neuropeptidome of the ornate spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus: A focus on peptide hormones and their processing enzymes expressed in the reproductive tissues. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2023; 332:114183. [PMID: 36471526 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuropeptides are commonly produced in the neural tissues yet can have effects on far-reaching targets, with varied biological responses. We describe here the neuropeptidome of the ornate spiny lobster, Panulirus ornatus, a species of emerging importance to closed-system aquaculture, with a focus on peptide hormones produced by the reproductive tissues. Transcripts for a precursor to one neuropeptide, adipokinetic hormone/corazonin-related peptide (ACP) were identified in high numbers in the sperm duct of adult spiny lobsters suggesting a role for ACP in the reproduction of this species. Neuropeptide production in the sperm duct may be linked with physiological control of spermatophore production in the male, or alternatively may function in signalling to the female. The enzymes which process nascent neuropeptide precursors into their mature, active forms have seldom been studied in decapods, and never before at the multi-tissue level. We have identified transcripts for multiple members of the proprotein convertase subtisilin/kexin family in the ornate spiny lobster, with some enzymes showing specificity to certain tissues. In addition, other enzyme transcripts involved with neuropeptide processing are identified along with their tissue and life stage expression patterns.
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- Susan Glendinning
- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia; School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia.
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Centre for Bioinnovation, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia; School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia
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Knigge T, LeBlanc GA, Ford AT. A Crab Is Not a Fish: Unique Aspects of the Crustacean Endocrine System and Considerations for Endocrine Toxicology. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:587608. [PMID: 33737907 PMCID: PMC7961072 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.587608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Crustaceans-and arthropods in general-exhibit many unique aspects to their physiology. These include the requirement to moult (ecdysis) in order to grow and reproduce, the ability to change color, and multiple strategies for sexual differentiation. Accordingly, the endocrine regulation of these processes involves hormones, receptors, and enzymes that differ from those utilized by vertebrates and other non-arthropod invertebrates. As a result, environmental chemicals known to disrupt endocrine processes in vertebrates are often not endocrine disruptors in crustaceans; while, chemicals that disrupt endocrine processes in crustaceans are often not endocrine disruptors in vertebrates. In this review, we present an overview of the evolution of the endocrine system of crustaceans, highlight endocrine endpoints known to be a target of disruption by chemicals, and identify other components of endocrine signaling that may prove to be targets of disruption. This review highlights that crustaceans need to be evaluated for endocrine disruption with consideration of their unique endocrine system and not with consideration of the endocrine system of vertebrates.
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- Thomas Knigge
- Normandy University, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 INERIS-URCA-ULH Environmental Stress and Aquatic Biomonitoring (SEBIO), Université Le Havre Normandie, Le Havre, France
- *Correspondence: Thomas Knigge,
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Zeng H, Bao C, Huang H, Ye H, Li S. The mechanism of regulation of ovarian maturation by red pigment concentrating hormone in the mud crab Scylla paramamosain. Anim Reprod Sci 2015; 164:152-61. [PMID: 26679434 DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2015.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Revised: 11/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In this study a full-length cDNA (Sp-RPCH) was cloned from the eyestalk ganglia of the mud crab Scylla paramamosain. Sp-RPCH is 660 base pairs in length and its open reading frame encodes a precursor that is predicted to be processed into a 25-residue signal peptide, a mature red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH, an octapeptide), and a 75-residue precursor-related peptide. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that it clusters with other crustacean RPCHs and belongs to the adipokinetic hormone/RPCH peptide superfamily. Sp-RPCH gene expression was detected, using an end-point polymerase chain reaction (PCR), not only in the eyestalk ganglia but also in the brain and thoracic ganglia. Quantified using a real-time PCR, Sp-RPCH gene expression levels in the three tissues fluctuated along a cycle of ovarian maturation, with the levels progressively increased from stages I to IV, after which the expression levels decreased (although they remained significantly higher than stage I levels) when the ovary reached the mature stage (stage V). It was demonstrated using a patch clamp analysis that synthetic RPCH was able to evoke a Ca(2+) current in dissociated brain neurons and synthetic RPCH significantly increased the mean oocyte diameter of the ovarian tissues co-cultured with the eyestalk ganglia, brain, or thoracic ganglia; the stimulatory effect of RPCH was absent when the nervous tissues were not included in the ovarian incubation. Animals administrated with RPCH had significantly higher levels of gonad-somatic index, hepatopancreas-somatic index, and vitellogenin gene expression, when compared to control animals receiving a saline injection. The combined results clearly show that RPCH is involved in ovarian maturation in the mud crab; the stimulatory effects of RPCH are likely mediated by its actions on the release from the nervous tissues of factor(s) that directly regulate vitellogenesis in the ovary and hepatopancreas.
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- Hui Zeng
- College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Development and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources, Xiamen 361102, China.
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- College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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Umbers KDL, Fabricant SA, Gawryszewski FM, Seago AE, Herberstein ME. Reversible colour change in Arthropoda. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2014; 89:820-48. [DOI: 10.1111/brv.12079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2013] [Revised: 12/04/2013] [Accepted: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kate D. L. Umbers
- Department of Biological Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney 2109 Australia
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Wollongong; Wollongong 2252 Australia
- Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology; University of Western Australia; Perth 6008 Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney 2109 Australia
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Kornthong N, Chotwiwatthanakun C, Chansela P, Tinikul Y, Cummins SF, Hanna PJ, Sobhon P. Characterization of red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH) in the female mud crab (Scylla olivacea) and the effect of 5-HT on its expression. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013; 185:28-36. [PMID: 23376531 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Revised: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH) is a member of the chromatophorotropic hormones and, in crustaceans, it is synthesized in the eyestalk. We have isolated a full-length cDNA for a RPCH preprohormone gene (Scyol-RPCH) from the eyestalks of female mud crabs, Scylla olivacea. The open reading frame consists of 642 nucleotides, and encodes a deduced 108 amino acid precursor protein, which includes a signal peptide, the RPCH (pQLNFSPGWamide), and an associated peptide. We show that the mud crab RPCH peptide exhibits 100% identity with 15 other decapods. Expression of Scyol-RPCH within adult mud crab takes place in the eyestalk, brain, and ventral nerve cord, comprising subesophageal ganglion, thoracic ganglion, and abdominal ganglion. In situ hybridization demonstrates specific expression within neuronal clusters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the eyestalk X-organ, clusters 6, 8, 9, 10, and 17 of the brain, and in neuronal clusters of the ventral nerve cord. We found that administration of 5-HT up-regulates RPCH gene expression in the eyestalk, suggesting that RPCH may play a role as a downstream hormone of 5-HT.
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- Napamanee Kornthong
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
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Dircksen H, Neupert S, Predel R, Verleyen P, Huybrechts J, Strauss J, Hauser F, Stafflinger E, Schneider M, Pauwels K, Schoofs L, Grimmelikhuijzen CJP. Genomics, transcriptomics, and peptidomics of Daphnia pulex neuropeptides and protein hormones. J Proteome Res 2011; 10:4478-504. [PMID: 21830762 DOI: 10.1021/pr200284e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We report 43 novel genes in the water flea Daphnia pulex encoding 73 predicted neuropeptide and protein hormones as partly confirmed by RT-PCR. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry identified 40 neuropeptides by mass matches and 30 neuropeptides by fragmentation sequencing. Single genes encode adipokinetic hormone, allatostatin-A, allatostatin-B, allatotropin, Ala(7)-CCAP, CCHamide, Arg(7)-corazonin, DENamides, CRF-like (DH52) and calcitonin-like (DH31) diuretic hormones, two ecdysis-triggering hormones, two FIRFamides, one insulin, two alternative splice forms of ion transport peptide (ITP), myosuppressin, neuroparsin, two neuropeptide-F splice forms, three periviscerokinins (but no pyrokinins), pigment dispersing hormone, proctolin, Met(4)-proctolin, short neuropeptide-F, three RYamides, SIFamide, two sulfakinins, and three tachykinins. There are two genes for a preprohormone containing orcomyotropin-like peptides and orcokinins, two genes for N-terminally elongated ITPs, two genes (clustered) for eclosion hormones, two genes (clustered) for bursicons alpha, beta, and two genes (clustered) for glycoproteins GPA2, GPB5, three genes for different allatostatins-C (two of them clustered) and three genes for IGF-related peptides. Detailed comparisons of genes or their products with those from insects and decapod crustaceans revealed that the D. pulex peptides are often closer related to their insect than to their decapod crustacean homologues, confirming that branchiopods, to which Daphnia belongs, are the ancestor group of insects.
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Zralá J, Kodrík D, Zahradnícková H, Zemek R, Socha R. A novel function of red pigment-concentrating hormone in crustaceans: Porcellio scaber (Isopoda) as a model species. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2010; 166:330-6. [PMID: 19925802 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2009] [Revised: 10/21/2009] [Accepted: 11/10/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The RP HPLC and LC/MS QTOF analyses of the methanolic CNS extract from isopod crustacean the woodlouse, Porcellio scaber revealed a presence of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (Panbo-RPCH) in this species. It has been shown that this neuropeptide plays a role in mobilization of energy stores: topical treatments of P. scaber individuals by Panbo-RPCH in a concentration 20 pmol/microl increased the level of glucose in haemolymph about 4 times, while the level of trehalose was only doubled. The results demonstrated that glucose was the main carbohydrate mobilized by the Panbo-RPCH treatment: glucose was responsible for about 97% of total carbohydrate increasing. Despite the demonstration of hyperglycaemic activity of Panbo-RPCH, no stimulatory effect of this hormone on the locomotory activity of P. scaber was observed. The present study is the first discovery of an occurrence of Panbo-RPCH and its hyperglycaemic activity in the representative of the isopod crustaceans. The relationship of the function of Panbo-RPCH in P. scaber to the role of this neuropeptide and adipokinetic hormones in insects is discussed.
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- Jana Zralá
- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences, Branisovská 31, 370 05 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Gäde G. Peptides of the Adipokinetic Hormone/Red Pigment-Concentrating Hormone Family. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1163:125-36. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03625.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rao KR. Crustacean pigment-dispersing hormones: chemistry, distribution and actions. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 2008; Suppl 2:266-70. [PMID: 1409428 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1990.tb00383.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- K R Rao
- Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola 32504
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Huybrechts J, Nusbaum MP, Bosch LV, Baggerman G, De Loof A, Schoofs L. Neuropeptidomic analysis of the brain and thoracic ganglion from the Jonah crab, Cancer borealis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 308:535-44. [PMID: 12914784 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)01426-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mass spectrometric methods were applied to determine the peptidome of the brain and thoracic ganglion of the Jonah crab (Cancer borealis). Fractions obtained by high performance liquid chromatography were characterized using MALDI-TOF MS and ESI-Q-TOF MS/MS. In total, 28 peptides were identified within the molecular mass range 750-3000Da. Comparison of the molecular masses obtained with MALDI-TOF MS with the calculated molecular masses of known crustacean peptides revealed the presence of at least nine allatostatins, three orcokinin precursor derived peptides, namely FDAFTTGFGHS, [Ala(13)]-orcokinin, and [Val(13)]-orcokinin, and two kinins, a tachykinin-related peptide and four FMRFamide-related peptides. Eight other peptides were de novo sequenced by collision induced dissociation on the Q-TOF system and yielded AYNRSFLRFamide, PELDHVFLRFamide or EPLDHVFLRFamide, APQRNFLRFamide, LNPFLRFamide, DVRTPALRLRFamide, and LRNLRFamide, which belong to the FMRFamide related peptide family, as well as NFDEIDRSGFA and NFDEIDRSSFGFV, which display high sequence similarity to peptide sequences within the orcokinin precursor of Orconectes limosus. Our paper is the first (neuro)peptidomic analysis of the crustacean nervous system.
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- Jurgen Huybrechts
- Laboratory of Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Leuven, Belgium.
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Rao KR. Crustacean Pigmentary-Effector Hormones: Chemistry and Functions of RPCH, PDH, and Related Peptides1. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0364:cpehca]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Rao KR. Crustacean Pigmentary-Effector Hormones: Chemistry and Functions of RPCH, PDH, and Related Peptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/41.3.364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Yang WJ, Aida K, Nagasawa H. Characterization of chromatophorotropic neuropeptides from the kuruma prawn Penaeus japonicus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1999; 114:415-24. [PMID: 10336829 DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Three chromatophorotropic neuropeptide hormones were purified from an aqueous extract of the sinus glands of the kuruma prawn Penaeus japonicus by two steps of reverse-phase HPLC and their amino acid sequences determined. One of them was found to show pigment concentrating activity and to have an amino acid sequence identical with that of the known red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH), and therefore it was named Pej-RPCH. The other two peptides showed pigment dispersing hormone (PDH) activity and were named Pej-PDH-I and -II. They both consisted of 18 amino acid residues with a free amino-terminus and an amidated carboxyl-terminus, the sequences of Pej-PDH-I and -II being NSELINSLLGIPKVMTDAamide and NSELINSLLGLPKFMIDAamide, respectively. Three amino acid residues at positions 11, 14, and 16 differed between the two PDHs. Pej-PDH-II was about 5-, 7-, and 10-fold more potent than Pej-PDH-I for erythrophores, xanthophores, and melanophores, respectively. The major reason for the difference in potency between the two PDHs was attributed to differences in residues at position 16. In addition, they were found to be produced by a single individual. The order of sensitivity of the four types of chromatophores to Pej-RPCH and both PDHs was found to be erythrophores = xanthophores > melanophores > leukophores.
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- W J Yang
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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Dircksen H, Skiebe P, Abel B, Agricola H, Buchner K, Muren JE, Nässel DR. Structure, distribution, and biological activity of novel members of the allatostatin family in the crayfish Orconectes limosus. Peptides 1999; 20:695-712. [PMID: 10477125 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-9781(99)00052-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In the central and peripheral nervous system of the crayfish, Orconectes limosus, neuropeptides immunoreactive to an antiserum against allatostatin I (= Dipstatin 7) of the cockroach Diploptera punctata have been detected by immunocytochemistry and a sensitive enzyme immunoassay. Abundant immunoreactivity occurs throughout the central nervous system in distinct interneurons and neurosecretory cells. The latter have terminals in well-known neurohemal organs, such as the sinus gland, the pericardial organs, and the perineural sheath of the ventral nerve cord. Nervous tissue extracts were separated by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and fractions were monitored in the enzyme immunoassay. Three of several immunopositive fractions have been purified and identified by mass spectroscopy and microsequencing as AGPYAFGL-NH2, SAGPYAFGL-NH2, and PRVYGFGL-NH2. The first peptide is identical to carcinustatin 8 previously identified in the crab Carcinus maenas. The others are novel and are designated orcostatin I and orcostatin II, respectively. All three peptides exert dramatic inhibitory effects on contractions of the crayfish hindgut. Carcinustatin 8 also inhibits induced contractions of the cockroach hindgut. Furthermore, this peptide reduces the cycle frequency of the pyloric rhythms generated by the stomatogastric nervous system of two decapod species in vitro. These crayfish allatostatin-like peptides are the first native crustacean peptides with demonstrated inhibitory actions on hindgut muscles and the pyloric rhythm of the stomatogastric ganglion.
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- H Dircksen
- Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Duve H, Johnsen AH, Maestro JL, Scott AG, Jaros PP, Thorpe A. Isolation and identification of multiple neuropeptides of the allatostatin superfamily in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 250:727-34. [PMID: 9461295 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00727.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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20 neuropeptides belonging to the allatostatin superfamily were isolated from extracts of cerebral and thoracic ganglia of the shore crab Carcinus maenas. They were purified by HPLC, monitored by radioimmunoassay and identified by mass spectrometry and amino acid sequencing. The allatostatins are characterised by a common C-terminal pentapeptide sequence -YXFGL-NH2. Previously such peptides have only been reported from insects. In insects the variable post-tyrosyl residue is restricted to Ala, Asn, Asp, Gly or Ser. In C. maenas, however, there are only two types; thirteen of the peptides having a post-tyrosyl Ala and the other seven, a post-tyrosyl Ser. The crab peptides include the shortest allatostatins so far identified (YAFGL-NH2 and YSFGL-NH2) as well as the longest, a 27-residue peptide. The total of 20 peptides exceeds the highest number of allatostatins found in any of the insects investigated so far (14 in Periplaneta americana). It is of interest that, despite their clear homology, none of the peptides of C. maenas is identical to any of the more than 50 known insect allatostatins. The crab allatostatins show evidence of gene duplication and mutation that has resulted in several sub-groups with close structural similarities. For example, there are four heptapeptides with the common C-terminus -PYAFGL-NH2 that differ only at the N-terminal residue, which is either Glu, Asp, Asn or Ser. Other motifs, variously extended at the N-terminus, include -GPY(A/S)FGL-NH2 (three peptides), -DMY(A/S)FGL-NH2 (three peptides), and -GQY(A/S)FGL-NH2 (two peptides). Unique among the allatostatin superfamily, one of the crab peptides has a Tyr for Phe substitution at position three from the C-terminus (GGPYSYGL-NH2). Immunocytochemistry has provided clues to the functions of the allatostatins in crustaceans by showing their widespread presence in the central and stomatogastric nervous systems.
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- H Duve
- School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, England
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Lorenzon S, Giulianini PG, Ferrero EA. Lipopolysaccharide-induced hyperglycemia is mediated by CHH release in crustaceans. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1997; 108:395-405. [PMID: 9405116 DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Septicemia in crustaceans may occur occasionally due to Gram-negative opportunistic bacteria, especially under conditions of intensive aquaculture. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxin induces in mammals septic shock and the activation by LPS of hormone release through the hypothalamo-pituitary axis is well known. In crustaceans an increase in circulating Crustacean hyperglycemic hormone and hyperglycemia are reported to result from exposure to several environmental stressors but the metabolic and hormonal effects of LPS in vivo are undescribed. A sublethal dose of LPS (Sigma, Escherichia coli 0111:B4) was injected into at least five individuals of species representative of crustacean taxa and life habits: Squilla mantis (Stomatopoda); the Decapoda Crangon crangon and Palaemon elegans (Caridea), Nephrops norvegicus (Astacidea), Munida rugosa and Paguristes oculatus (Anomura), Pilumnus hirtellus, Macropipus vernalis, Parthenope massena, and Ilia nucleus (Brachyura). Within 3 hr an increase in blood sugar developed ranging from 26.00 +/- 8.37 sd mg/dl in M. rugosa to 201.50 +/- 95. 91 sd mg/dl in P. oculatus and a significant increase of 79% in M. rugosa up to 1300% in P. hirtellus over control levels was observed. The involvement of eyestalk hormones in this generalized response was tested on S. mantis, M. vernalis, and P. elegans; LPS injected into eyestalkless animals did not elicit a significant hyperglycemic response compared with saline-injected controls. Eyestalkless animals injected with one eyestalk equivalent homogenate in saline from untreated animals did show a change in color from red to normal likely due to red pigment concentrating hormone and a hyperglycemic response within 2 hr. Eyestalkless animals injected with homogenate from LPS-treated shrimps showed the change in color but not the hyperglycemic response. It is concluded that LPS directly, or cytokines circulated upon challenge by the endotoxin, may act on the medulla terminalis X-organ-sinus gland complex and release CHH selectively eliciting an hyperglycemic stress response, after which CHH stores become relatively depleted.
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- S Lorenzon
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 7, Trieste, I-34127, Italy
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Goldsworthy GJ, Lee MJ, Luswata R, Drake AF, Hyde D. Structures, assays and receptors for locust adipokinetic hormones. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1997; 117:483-96. [PMID: 9297796 DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0491(97)00186-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This review is concerned mainly with the adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) of locusts: their molecular conformations, actions and functions and the development of microfiltration assays in vitro. The physiological significance of having multiple hormones with overlapping actions whose efficacy changes during development is discussed in relation to the possibility that these reflect variations in populations of receptors and/or the pharmacokinetics of the peptides. The involvement of second messengers in the transduction mechanism of AKHs is reviewed, and we describe hormone-induced changes of intracellular calcium in single dispersed fat body cells. The structure activity relationships of the three locust AKHs and a number of analogues with variations at the N- and C-termini are discussed. A number of areas are identified where there are gaps in our understanding of these hormones, and some of these will be the focus of our future research.
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- G J Goldsworthy
- Department of Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K
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Gade G. The Explosion of Structural Information on Insect Neuropeptides. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE / PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS 1997. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6529-4_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Britto ALM, Josefsson L, Scemes E, Visconti MA, Castrucci AMDL. Ionic requirements for PCH-induced pigment aggregation in the freshwater shrimp, Macrobrachium potiuna, erythrophores. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02075-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hormones in the red swamp crayfish. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1572-5995(96)80016-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Tuma MC, Josefsson L, Castrucci AM. Cytoskeleton and PCH-induced pigment aggregation in Macrobrachium potiuna erythrophores. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1995; 8:215-20. [PMID: 8610073 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1995.tb00666.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Herein we report the effects of microtubule- and actin-like filament disrupting drugs, as well as the microtubule stabilizer taxol, on PCH-induced pigment granule aggregation within erythrophores of the freshwater crustacean Macrobrachium potiuna. Dose-response curves (DRCs) to the pigment-concentrating hormone PCH were determined under control and experimental conditions to evaluate the effects elicited by the cytoskeleton-affecting drugs. Colchicine, at temperatures 22 degrees C and 4 degrees C, and vinblastine significantly inhibited the aggregating response to PCH and affected the dynamics of the process, as shown by the change in the slope of the regression curve calculated from the DRCs. Lumicolchicine, a colchicine analogue with no affinity for tubulin, also inhibited pigment migration, though no change in the slope of the regression curve was observed. The inhibitory effects of lumicolchicine demonstrate that changes in sites other than cytoskeleton, such as membrane permeability, may also cause a decrease in the PCH-induced aggregating responses and that the colchicine effects may result from its action on cellular sites additional to the cytoskeleton. Taxol, a microtubule stabilizer, did not affect the DRC to PCH, and DMSO improved the PCH-evoked responses, pointing out to the maintenance of tubulin in the polymerized state as the appropriate condition for aggregation. Cytochalasin B, an actin-like filament disrupter, diminished the aggregating responses to the hormone, with no change in the slope of the regression curve, indicating that these elements take part in the process and that cytosolic calcium rise, sol/gel transformations and endoplasmic reticulum motility may well play an important role in granule migration. It is suggested that microtubules are steadily polymerized as a requirement for pigment aggregation and that process is biphasic, the initial phase being dependent on the microtubule integrity.
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- M C Tuma
- Department of Physiology, NAPIG, USP, Brazil
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Veenstra JA, Hagedorn HH. Isolation of two AKH-related peptides from cicadas. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 29:391-396. [PMID: 7655059 DOI: 10.1002/arch.940290406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Two peptides related to locust adipokinetic hormone and crustacean red pigment concentrating hormone were isolated by high performance liquid chromatography from the cicadas Cacama valavata and Diceroprocta semicincta. Both species have the same peptides. The structure of one of the peptides is pGlu-Val-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Ser-Trp-Gly-Asn-amide. The mass spectrum, amino acid composition, and amino acid sequence of the other peptide suggest that it is almost identical to the first peptide. However, the exact nature of the difference between the two peptides could not be determined.
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- J A Veenstra
- Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
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Gäde G, Janssens MP, Kellner R. A novel peptide in the AKH/RPCH family isolated from the corpora cardiaca of the Emperor dragonfly, Anax imperator. Peptides 1994; 15:1-6. [PMID: 8015965 DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(94)90162-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Using a heterologous (in locusts and cockroaches) and a homologous bioassay, we have isolated the neuropeptide pGlu-Val-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Ser-Trp-NH2 from extracts of corpora cardiaca of the Emperor dragonfly, Anax imperator. The sequence elucidation was achieved by Edman degradation of the deblocked peptide and by electrospray mass spectrometry. Low concentrations of the synthetic peptide injected into the Emperor dragonfly increased the hemolymph lipid concentration, suggesting a possible role of the peptide in lipid homeostasis during flight. Therefore, it is named Ani-AKH, Anax imperator adipokinetic hormone.
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- G Gäde
- Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- K R Rao
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola 32514-5751
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Lohr J, Klein J, Webster SG, Dircksen H. Quantification, immunoaffinity purification and sequence analysis of a pigment-dispersing hormone of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas (L.). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 104:699-706. [PMID: 8472537 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(93)90200-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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1. A sensitive sandwich-ELISA for pigment-dispersing hormone (PDH) with a detection limit of approximately 5 fmol per well has been developed using primary IgG and secondary biotinylated IgG fractions from an antiserum against beta-PDH and streptavidin-peroxidase conjugate for detection. 2. ELISA determinations in different parts of the central nervous system of the shore crab Carcinus maenas revealed maximum levels of 15.1 pmol immunoreactive PDH in the two eyestalk ganglia of one crab, 3.6 pmol in the sinus glands, 2.8 pmol in the brain and 0.8 pmol in the thoracic ganglia. 3. Carcinus PDH was purified from whole eyestalk ganglia and sinus glands by use of a simple two-step purification procedure consisting of immunoaffinity-prepurification on an anti-PDH IgG-protein A-Sepharose column and HPLC. 4. Automated gas-phase sequencing of the purified peptide and FAB-mass spectroscopy unambiguously revealed the sequence of Carcinus PDH as NSELINSILGLPKVMNDAamide (M(r) 1927.2 Da), which is identical to the beta-PDH of other brachyuran crustaceans.
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- J Lohr
- Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Bonn, Germany
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Dircksen H. Fine structure of the neurohemal sinus gland of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas, and immuno-electron-microscopic identification of neurosecretory endings according to their neuropeptide contents. Cell Tissue Res 1992; 269:249-66. [PMID: 1423493 DOI: 10.1007/bf00319616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The sinus gland of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas, is a compact assembly of interdigitating neurosecretory axon endings abutting upon the thin basal lamina of a central hemolymph lacuna. Four types of axon endings are distinguishable by the size distribution, shape, electron density and core structure of their neurosecretory granules. One additional type of axon ending is characterized by electron-lucent vacuoles and vesicles. The axon profiles are surrounded by astrocyte-like glial cells. Various fixations followed by epoxy- or Lowicryl-embedding were compared in order to optimize the preservation of the fine structure of the granule types and the antigenicity of their peptide hormone contents. By use of specific rabbit antisera, the crustacean hyperglycemic, molt-inhibiting, pigment-dispersing, and red-pigment-concentrating hormones were assigned to the four distinct granule types which showed no overlap of immunostaining. Epi-polarization microscopy and ultrathin section analysis of immunogold-stained Lowicryl-embedded specimens revealed that immunoreactivity to Leu-enkephalin and proctolin is co-localized with molt-inhibiting hormone immunoreactivity in the same type of granule. The size and core structure of the immunocytochemically identified granule types vary little with the different pretreatments but, in some cases, to a statistically significant extent. The present results are compared with those from earlier studies of sinus glands in different crustaceans. The methods of granule identification used in this study supplement the classical approach in granule typing; they are easier to perform and more reliable for the analysis of release phenomena in identified secretory neurons supplying the neurohemal sinus gland.
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- H Dircksen
- Institut für Zoophysiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
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Fingerman M, Nagabhushanam R. Control of the release of crustacean hormones by neuroregulators. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(92)90125-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Keller R. Crustacean neuropeptides: structures, functions and comparative aspects. EXPERIENTIA 1992; 48:439-48. [PMID: 1601108 DOI: 10.1007/bf01928162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 296] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In this article, an attempt is made to review the presently known, completely identified crustacean neuropeptides with regard to structure, function and distribution. Probably the most important progress has been made in the elucidation of a novel family of large peptides from the X-organ-sinus gland system which includes crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH), putative molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH) and vitellogenesis (= gonad)-inhibiting hormone (VIH). These peptides have so far only been found in crustaceans. Renewed interest in the neurohemal pericardial organs has led to the identification of a number of cardioactive/myotropic neuropeptides, some of them unique to crustaceans. Important contributions have been made by immunocytochemical mapping of peptidergic neurons in the nervous system, which has provided evidence for a multiple role of several neuropeptides as neurohormones on the one hand and as local transmitters or modulators on the other. This has been corroborated by physiological studies. The long-known chromatophore-regulating hormones, red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH) and pigment-dispending hormone (PDH), have been placed in a broader perspective by the demonstration of an additional role as local neuromodulators. The scope of crustacean neuropeptide research has thus been broadened considerably during the last years.
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- R Keller
- Institut für Zoophysiologie, Universität Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
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McCallum ML, Rao KR, Riehm JP, Mohrherr CJ, Morgan WT. Primary structure and relative potency of an analog of beta-PDH (pigment-dispersing hormone) from the crayfish Procambarus clarkii. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1991; 4:201-8. [PMID: 1823925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1991.tb00441.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A pigment-dispersing hormone (PDH) from eyestalks of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii was purified by gel filtration, cation-exchange chromatography, partition chromatography, and reversed-phase HPLC. Based on automated sequencing and by the identical chromatographic behavior of the native PDH and the synthetic amidated form of the deduced sequence, the primary structure of Procambarus PDH has been established as: Asn-Ser-Glu-Leu-Ile-Asn-Ser-Ile-Leu-Gly-Leu-Pro-Lys-Val-Met-Asn-Glu-Ala- NH2. This peptide differs from beta-PDH of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator at a single position, Glu17 in place of Asp17. Because of this substitution, Procambarus PDH was 4 to 7-fold less potent than beta-PDH in causing pigment dispersion in the erythrophores, leucophores, and melanophores of Uca. In contrast, Procambarus PDH was 4-fold more potent than beta-PDH in eliciting pigment dispersion in the erythrophores of Procambarus. These peptides displayed less marked differences in potency in triggering leucophore pigment dispersion and light-adaptational distal eye pigment movement in Procambarus. These findings indicate that the structural requirements for PDH-receptor interactions vary with the species and with the target cell type within a given species.
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- M L McCallum
- Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola 32514-5751
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