Oxytocin/vasopressin-like peptide inotocin regulates cuticular hydrocarbon synthesis and water balancing in ants - Koto, Akiko; Motoyama, Naoto; Tahara, Hiroki; McGregor, Sean; Moriyama, Minoru; Okabe, Takayoshi; Miura, Masayuki; Keller, Laurent (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019)
Keywords: Animal Scales - growth & development; Animal Scales - metabolism; Animals; Antagonists; Ants; Ants - physiology; Arthropods; Biological Sciences; Camponotus fellah; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Cytochrome P450; Cytochromes P450; Desiccation; Double-stranded RNA; Drug therapy; Homology; Hybridization; Hydrocarbons; Insecta - metabolism; Insects; Oenocytes; Oxytocin; Oxytocin - analogs & derivatives; Oxytocin - metabolism; Peptides; Pharmacology; PNAS Plus; Regulators; Signaling; Social Behavior; Social interactions; Synthesis; Vasopressin; Vasopressins - analysis; Vasopressins - metabolism; Vertebrates; Water - metabolism; Water-Electrolyte Balance - physiology; Workers (insect caste); behavioral tracking; cuticular hydrocarbon; division of labor; social insect; oxytocin/vasopressin-like peptide