This document provides references to 20 papers published between 1980-2002 by J.A. Veenstra focusing on the immunocytochemical localization and isolation of neuropeptides in insects and other invertebrates. The papers identify various peptides involved in processes like egg-laying, diuresis, adipokinesis, and neurotransmission and provide insights into the evolution of peptide signaling across species.
This document provides references to 20 papers published between 1980-2002 by J.A. Veenstra focusing on the immunocytochemical localization and isolation of neuropeptides in insects and other invertebrates. The papers identify various peptides involved in processes like egg-laying, diuresis, adipokinesis, and neurotransmission and provide insights into the evolution of peptide signaling across species.
This document provides references to 20 papers published between 1980-2002 by J.A. Veenstra focusing on the immunocytochemical localization and isolation of neuropeptides in insects and other invertebrates. The papers identify various peptides involved in processes like egg-laying, diuresis, adipokinesis, and neurotransmission and provide insights into the evolution of peptide signaling across species.
This document provides references to 20 papers published between 1980-2002 by J.A. Veenstra focusing on the immunocytochemical localization and isolation of neuropeptides in insects and other invertebrates. The papers identify various peptides involved in processes like egg-laying, diuresis, adipokinesis, and neurotransmission and provide insights into the evolution of peptide signaling across species.
Boer, H.H., Schot, L.P.C., Veenstra, J.A. & Reichelt, D.
(1980) Immunocytochemical identification of neural
elements in the central nervous system of a snail, some insects, a fish, and a mammal with an antiserum to the molluscan cardio-excitatory tetrapeptide FMRF-amide. Cell and Tissue Research 213, 21-27. Ter Maat, A., Lodder, J.C., Veenstra, J. & Goldschmeding, J.T. (1982) Suppression of egg-laying during starvation in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis by inhibition of the ovulation hormone producing caudo- dorsal cells. Brain Research 239, 535-542. Schooneveld, H., Tesser, G.I., Veenstra, J.A. & Romberg-Privee, H.M. (1983) Adipokinetic hormone and AKH-like peptide demonstrated in the corpora cardiaca and nervous system of Locusta migratoria by immunocytochemistry. Cell and Tissue Research 230, 67-76. Veenstra, J.A. & Schooneveld, H. (1984) Immunocytochemical localization of neurons in the nervous system of the Colorado potato beetle with antisera against FMRFamide and bovine pancreatic polypeptide. Cell and Tissue Research 235, 303-308. Veenstra, J.A., Romberg-Privee, H.M. & Schooneveld, H. (1984) Immunocytochemical localization of peptidergic cells in the neuro-endocrine system of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, with antisera against vasopressin, vasotocin and oxytocin. Histochemistry 81, 29-34. Veenstra, J.A. (1984) Immunocytochemical demonstration of a homology in peptidergic neurosecretory cells in the suboesophageal ganglion of a beetle and a locust with antisera to bovine pancreatic polypeptide, FMRFamide, vasopressin and a-MSH. Neuroscience Letters 48, 185-190. Veenstra, J.A. & Yanaihara, N. (1984) Immunocytochemical localization of gastrin-releasing peptide/bombesin-like immunoreactive neurons in insects. Histochemistry 81, 133-138. Schooneveld, H., Romberg-Privee, H.M. & Veenstra, J.A. (1985) Adipokinetic hormone-immunoreactive peptide in the endocrine and central nervous sytem of several insect species: A comparative immunocytochemical approach. General and comparative Endocrinology 57, 184-194. Veenstra, J.A., Romberg-Privee, H.M., Schooneveld, H & Polak, J.M. (1985a) Immunocytochemical localization of peptidergic neurons and neurosecretory cells in the neuro-endocrine system of the Colorado potato beetle with antisera to vertebrate regulatory peptides. Histochemistry 82, 9-18. Veenstra, J.A., Romberg-Privee, H.M. & Schooneveld, H.M. (1985b) A proctolin-like peptide and its immunocytochemical localization in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Cell and Tissue Research 240, 535-540. Schooneveld, H., Romberg-Privee, H.M. & Veenstra, J.A. (1986) Immunocytochemical differentiation between adipokinetic hormone (AKH)-like peptides in neurons and glandular cells in the corpus cardiacum of Locusta migratoria and Periplaneta americana with C-terminal and N-terminal specific antisera to AKH. Cell and Tissue Research 243, 9-14. Veenstra, J.A. (1987) Diversity in neurohaemal organs for homologous neurosecretory cells in different insect species as demonstrated by immunocytochemistry with an antiserum to molluscan cardioexcitatory peptide. Neuroscience Letters 73, 33-37. Schooneveld, H., Romberg-Privee, H.M. & Veenstra, J.A. (1987) Phylogenetic differentiation of glandular cells in corpora cardiaca as studied immunocytochemically with region-specific antisera to adipokinetic hormone. Journal of Insect Physiology 33, 167-176. Veenstra, J.A. (1988a) Effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine on the Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti. Journal of Insect Physiology 34, 299-304. Veenstra, J.A. (1988b) Immunocytochemical demonstration of vertebrate peptides in invertebrates: the homology concept. Neuropeptides 12, 49-54. Veenstra, J.A. (1989a) The apparent absence of a homeostatic hypotrehalosaemic hormone in the German cockroach (Blattella germanica). Journal of Insect Physiology 35, 57-61. Veenstra, J.A. (1989b) Isolation and strucure of corazonin, a cardioactive peptide from the American cockroach. FEBS Letters 250, 231-234. Veenstra, J.A. (1989c) Isolation and strucure of two gastrin/CCK-like neuropeptides from the American cockroach homologous to the leucosulfakinins. Neuropeptides 14, 145-149. Veenstra, J.A. (1989d) Simulation of the activation of fat body glycogen phosphorylase and of trehalose synthesis by peptide hormones in the American cockroach. Bio Systems 23, 31-40. Veenstra, J.A. (1989e) Do insects really have a homeostatic hypotrehalosaemic hormone? Biological Reviews 64, 305-316. Veenstra, J.A. & Camps, F. (1990) Structure of the hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica. Neuropeptides 15, 107-109. Veenstra, J.A. & Hagedorn, H.H. (1991) Identification of neuroendocrine cells producing a diuretic hormone in the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Cell and Tissue Research 266, 359-364. Veenstra, J.A. (1991) Presence of corazonin in three insect species, and isolation and identification of 7 [His ]corazonin from Schistocerca americana. Peptides 12, 1285-1289. Veenstra, J.A. & Hagedorn, H.H. (1993) A sensitive enzyme immuno assay for Manduca allatotropin and the existence of an allatotropin-immunoreactive peptide in Periplaneta americana. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 23, 99-109. Veenstra, J.A., & Davis, N.T. (1993) Localization of Corazonin in the nervous system of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. Cell and Tissue Research 274, 57-64. Chen, Y., Veenstra, J.A., Davis, N.T. & Hagedorn, H.H. (1994a) A comparative study of leucokinin- immunoreactive neurons in insects. Cell and Tissue Research 276, 69-83. Veenstra, J.A., Lehman, H.K, Davis, N.T (1994) Allatotropin is a cardioacceleratory peptide in Manduca sexta. Journal of experimental Biology 188, 347-354. Predel, R., Agricola, H., Linde, D., Veenstra, J.A. & Penzlin, H. (1994) The insect neuropeptide corazonin: physiological and immunocytochemical studies in Blattariae. Zoology (ZACS) 98, 35-49. Chen, Y., Veenstra, J.A., Hagedorn, H.H. & Davis, N.T. (1994b) Leucokinin and diuretic hormone immunoreactivity of neurons in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. Cell and Tissue Research 278, 493-507. Cantera, R., Veenstra, J.A. & Nässel, D.R. (1994) Postembryonic development of corazonin-containing neurons in the blowfly, Phormia terranovae. Journal of Comparative Neurology 350, 559-572. Veenstra, J.A. (1994a) Isolation and identification of three leucokinins from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 202, 715-719. Veenstra, J.A. (1994b) Isolation and structure of the Drosophila corazonin gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 204, 292-296. Veenstra, J.A. & Hagedorn, H.H. (1995) Isolation of two AKH-related peptides from cicadas. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 29, 301-316. Veenstra, J.A. & Lambrou, G. (1995) Isolation of a novel RFamide peptide from the midgut of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 213, 519-524. Veenstra, J.A., Lau, G.W., Agricola, H-J. & Petzel, D.H. (1995) Immunohistological localization of regulatory peptides in the midgut of the female mosquito Aedes aegypti. Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 104, 337-347. Veenstra, J.A., Patillo, J.M. & Petzel, D. H. (1997) A single cDNA encodes all three Aedes leucokinins, which stimulate both fluid secretion by the Malpighian tubules and hindgut contractions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 272, 10402-10407. Veenstra, J.A., Noriega, F. G., Graf, R. & Feyereisen, R. (1997) Identification of three allatostatins and their cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Peptides, 18, 937-942. Davis, N.T., Veenstra, J.A., Feyereisen, R., & Hildebrand, J.G. (1997) Allatostatin-immunoreactive neurons in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, and isolation and identification of a new neuropeptide of the allatostatin family. Journal of comparative Neurology, 385, 265-284. Veenstra, J. A. (1999) Isolation and identifcation of three RFamide-immunoreactive peptides from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Peptides, 20, 31-38. Terhzaz, S., O’Connell, F.C., Pollock, V.P., Davies, S.A., Kean, L., Veenstra, J.A.* & Dow, J.A.T.* (1999) Isolation and characterzation of a leucokinin-like peptide of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of experimental Biology, 202, 3667-3676. Veenstra, J.A. & Costes, L. (1999) Isolation and identification of a peptide and its cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti related to Manduca sexta allatotropin. Peptides, 20, 1145-1151. Veenstra, J.A. (2000) Mono- and dibasic proteolytic cleavage sites in insect regulatory peptide precursors. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 43, 49-63. Tamarelle, M., Coast G.M. & Veenstra, J.A. (2000) Ovary maturating parsin and diuretic hormone are produced by the same neuroendocrine cells in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria. Peptides, 21, 737-739. Martinez, T., Burmeister, T., Veenstra, J.A. & Wheeler, D. (2000) Sequence and evolution of a hexamerin from the ant Camponotus festinatus. Insect Molecular Biology, 9, 427-431. Kean, L., Cazenave, C., Costes, L, Broderick, K. E., Graham, S., Pollock, V.P., Davies, S.A., Veenstra, J.A., Dow, J.A.T. (2002) Two nitridergic peptides are encoded by the gene capability in Drosophila melanogaster. American Journal of Physiology 282, R1297-307. Cabrero, P., Radford, J.C, Broderick, K.E, Costes, L., Veenstra, J.A., Spana, E.P., Davies, S.A. & Dow, J.A.T. (2002) The Dh gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a diuretic peptide that acts through cyclic AMP. Journal of experimental Biology, 205, 3799-3807. Taghert, P.H. & Veenstra, J.A. (2003) Neuropeptide Signaling in Drosophila. Advances in Genetics, 49, 1- 65. Li, Y., Unnithan, G.C., Veenstra, J.A., Feyereisen, R. & Noriega, F.G. (2003) Stimulation of JH biosynthesis by the corpora allata of adult female Aedes aegypti in vitro: effect of farnesoic acid and Aedes allatotropin. The Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 1825-1832.[cited 18 times]. Homberg, U., Brandl C., Clynen, E., Schoofs, L. & Veenstra, J.A. (2004) Mas allatotropin/Lom-AG- myotropin I immunostaining in the brain of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria. Cell and Tissue Research 318, 439-457. Isabel, G., Martin, J.-R., Chidami,S., Veenstra, J.A. & Rosay, P. (2005) AKH-producing neuroendocrine cell ablation decreases trehalose and induces behavioral changes in Drosophila. American Journal of Physiology 288, R531-538. Terhzaz, S., Rosay, P., Goodwin, S.F., & Veenstra, J.A. (2007) The neuropeptide SIFamide modulates sexual behavior in Drosophila. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 352, 305-310. Johard, H., Enell, L., Gustafsson, E., Trifilieff, P, Veenstra, J.A., & Nässel, D.R. (2008) Intrinsic neurons of Drosophila mushroom bodies express short Neuropeptide F: Relations to extrinsic neurons expressing different neurotransmitters. Journal of Comparative Neurology 507, 1479-96. Park, D., Veenstra, J.A., Park, J., & Taghert, P.H. (2008) Mapping peptidergic cells in Drosophila: where DIMM fits in. PLoS ONE 3 (3): e1896. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001896. Veenstra, J.A., Agricola, H.-J., & Sellami, A., (2008). Regulatory peptides in the fruit fly midgut. Cell and Tissue Research, 234, 499-516. Veenstra, J.A. (2009a) Allatostatin C and its paralog allatostatin double C: The arthropod somatostatins. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 39, 161-170. Veenstra, J.A. (2009b) Paracrine and endocrine cells in the midgut of the fruit fly maggot. Cell and Tissue Research, 336, 309-323. Veenstra, J.A. (2009c) Does Corazonin signal nutritional stress in insects ? Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biolology 39, 755-762. de Haro, M., Al-Ramahi, I., Benito-Sipos, J., López-Arias, B., Dorado, B., Veenstra, J.A., Herrero, P. (2010) Detailed analysis of leucokinin-expressing neurons and their candidate functions in the Drosophila nervous system. Cell and Tissue Research, 339, 321-336. Huybrechts, J., Bonhomme, J., Minoli, S., Prunier-Leterme, N., Dombrovsky, A., Abdel-Latief, M., Robichon, A., Veenstra, J.A.*, & Tagu, D.* (2010) Neuropeptide and neurohormone precursors in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, Insect Molecular Biology, 19 (Supplement 2), 87-95. The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (2010) Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biology, 8:e1000313. Veenstra, J.A. (2010a) Neurohormones and neuropeptides encoded by the genome of Lottia gigantea, with reference to other mollusks and insects. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 167, 86-103. Veenstra, J.A. (2010b) What the loss of the hormone neuroparsin in the melanogaster subgroup of Drosophila can tell us about its function. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biolology 40, 354-361. Sellami, A., Isabel, G. & Veenstra, J.A. (2010) Expression of the mu-Opioid receptor in Drosophila and its effects on trehalose and glycogen when expressed by the AKH neuroendocrine cells. Peptides, 31, 1383-1389. Kirkness, E.F., Haas, B.J., Sun, W., Braig, H.R., Perotti, M.A., Clark, J.M., Lee, S.H., Robertson, H.M., Kennedy, R.C., Elhaik, E., Gerlach, D., Kriventseva, E.V., Elsik, C.G., Graur, D., Hill, C.A., Veenstra, J.A., Walenz, B., Tubío, J.M., Ribeiro, J.M., Rozas, J., Johnston, J.S., Reese, J.T., Popadic, A., Tojo, M., Raoult, D., Reed, D.L., Tomoyasu, Y., Krause, E., Mittapalli, O., Margam, V.M., Li, H.M., Meyer, J.M., Johnson, R.M., Romero-Severson, J., Vanzee, J.P., Alvarez-Ponce, D., Vieira, F.G., Aguadé, M., Guirao-Rico, S., Anzola, J.M., Yoon, K.S., Strycharz, J.P., Unger, M.F., Christley, S., Lobo, N.F., Seufferheld, M.J., Wang, N., Dasch, G.A., Struchiner, C.J., Madey, G., Hannick, L.I., Bidwell, S., Joardar, V., Caler, E., Shao, R., Barker, S.C., Cameron, S., Bruggner, R.V., Regier, A., Johnson, J., Viswanathan, L., Utterback, T.R., Sutton, G.G., Lawson, D., Waterhouse, R.M., Venter, J.C., Strausberg, R.L., Berenbaum, M.R., Collins, F.H., Zdobnov, E.M., Pittendrigh, B.R. (2010) Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont: Insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A, 107, 12168-12173. Laguerre, M. & Veenstra, J.A. (2010) Ecdysone receptor homologs from mollusks, leeches and a polychaete worm. FEBS Letters, 584, 4458-4462. Sellami, A., Agricola, H.-J., Veenstra, J.A. (2011) Neuroendocrine cells in Drosophila melanogaster producing GPA2/GPB5, a hormone with homology to LH, FSH and TSH. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 170, 582-588. Veenstra, J.A. (2011) Neuropeptide evolution: Neurohormones and neuropeptides predicted from the genomes of the annelids Capitella teleta and Helobdella robusta. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 171: 160-175. Grbić, M.,Van Leeuwen, T., Clark, R.M., Rombauts, S., Rouzé, P., Grbić, V., Osborne, E.J., Dermauw, W., Cao, P., Ngoc, T., Ortego, T., Hernandez-Crespo, P., Diaz, I., Martinez, M., Navajas, M., Sucena, E., Magalhães, S., Nagy, L., Pace, R., Djuranović, S., Smagghe, G., Iga, M., Christiaens, O., Veenstra, J.A., Ewer, J., Mancilla Villalobos, R., Hutter, J.L., Hudson, S.D., Velez, M.,Yi, S., Zeng, J., Pires- daSilva, A., Roch, F., Cazauz, M., Navarro, M., Zhurov, V., Acevedo, G., Bjelica, A., Fawcetts, J.A., Bonnets, E., Martens, C., Baele, G., Wissler, L., Sanchez-Rodriguez, A., Tirry, L., Blais, C., Demeestere, K., Henz, S., Gregory, R., Mathieu, J., Verdon, L., Farinelli, L., Schmutz, J., Lindquist, E., Feyereisen, R., Van de Peer, Y. (2011). The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations. Nature, 479: 487-492. Veenstra, J.A., Rombauts, S., Grbić, M. 2012. In silico cloning of genes encoding neuropeptides, neurohormones and their putative G-protein coupled receptors in a spider mite. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 42: 277-295. Veenstra, J.A., Rodriguez, L., Weaver, R. 2012. Allatotropin, leucokinin and AKH in honeybees and other Hymenoptera. Peptides, 35: 122-130. Sellami, A., Wegener, C., Veenstra, J.A. 2012. Functional significance of the copper transporter ATP7 in peptidergic neurons and endocrine cells in Drosophila melanogaster. FEBS Letters, 586 : 2633-3638.