| Recent Publications:
Lee, K.-Y., and F.M.
Horodyski (2005). Effects of Starvation and
Mating on Corpora Allata Activity and Allatotropin
(Manse-AT) Gene Expression in Manduca sexta.
Peptides, submitted.
Schooley, D.A., F.M.
Horodyski, and G.M. Coast. (2004). Hormones
controlling homeostasis in insects. In
“Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science” (L.I.
Gilbert, ed.), Vol. 3.10, pp. 1-58. Elsevier,
London.
Elekonich, M.M., and
F.M. Horodyski (2003). Insect allatotropins
belong to a family of structurally-related myoactive
peptides present in several invertebrate phyla.
Peptides, 24, 1623-1632.
Lee, K.-Y., M.E.
Chamberlin, and F.M. Horodyski (2002).
Biological activity of Manduca sexta
allatotropin-like peptides, predicted products of
tissue-specific and developmentally-regulated
alternatively spliced mRNAs. Peptides, 23,
1933-1941.
Lee, K.-Y., F.M.
Horodyski, A.P. Valaitis, and D.L. Denlinger
(2002). Molecular characterizaion of the insect
immune protein hemolin and its induction in the gut
during embryonic diapause in the gypsy moth,
Lymantria dispar. Insect Biochem.Mol.Biol.,
32, 1457-1467.
Maxwell, R.A., W.H.
Welch, F.M. Horodyski, K.M. Schegg, and D.A.
Schooley (2002). JH diol kinase. II. Sequencing,
cloning and molecular modeling of juvenile hormone
selective diol kinase from Manduca sexta.
J.Biol.Chem. 277, 21882-21890.
Lu, D., K.-Y. Lee,
F.M. Horodyski, and J.L. Witten (2002).
Molecular characterization and cell-specific
expression of a Manduca sexta FLRFamide
gene. J.Comp.Neurol. 446, 377-396.
Lee, K.-Y., and F.M.
Horodyski (2002). Restriction of nutrient
intake results in the increase of a specific
Manduca sexta allatotropin (Manse-AT) mRNA in
the nerve cord. Peptides 23, 653-661.
Horodyski, F.M.,
S.R. Bhatt, and K.-Y. Lee (2001). Alternative
splicing of transcripts expressed by the Manduca
sexta allatotropin (Mas-AT) gene is regulated in
a tissue-specific manner. Peptides 22,
263-269.
Bhatt, T.R., and F.M.
Horodyski (1999). Expression of the Manduca
sexta allatotropin gene in cells of the central
and enteric nervous systems. J.Comp.Neurol.
403, 407-420.
Lee, K.-Y., F.M.
Horodyski, and M.E. Chamberlin (1998).
Inhibition of midgut ion transport by allatotropin (Mas-AT)
and Manduca FLRFamides in the tobacco
hornworm, Manduca sexta. J.Exp.Biol.
201, 3067-3074. |
