Chromatography and Isolation of Insect Hormones and Pheromones

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Endogenous Juvenile Hormone III Titres and In Vitro Rates of Hormone Biosynthesis by Corpora Allata During the Reproductive Cycle of Adult Female Periplaneta Americana ....Pages 3-8
Use of Thin-Layer Chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry to Investigate the Relationship Between Juvenile Hormone Titre and Corpus Allatum Activity in Adult Male Periplaneta Americana ....Pages 9-18
Use of Microderivatization Techniques in Combination with Thin-Layer Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Investigation of Juvenile Hormones and Related Compounds....Pages 19-31
The Precocene Antijuvenile Hormones (Allatotoxins): A Case History in Insect Toxicology....Pages 33-42
 A Note on the Regulation of the Corpora Allata by the Brain in the Adult Female American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana ....Pages 43-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Chromatographic Separations of Ecdysone Acyl Esters and Their Application to the Distribution and Identification of Ecdysteroids in Adult House Crickets, Acheta Domesticus ....Pages 53-67
Ecdysteroids in Eggs of Periplaneta Americana : Rapid Analysis Using 3µ C18 Columns and the Binding of Ecdysteroids to Vitellin....Pages 69-78
Advances in Ecdysteroid High Performance Liquid Chromatography....Pages 79-94
Examination of Conditions in Supercritical Fluid Chromatography for Analysis of Ecdysteroids....Pages 95-102
Current Status and Recent Advances in the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry of Ecdysteroids....Pages 103-115
Thin-Layer Chromatography of Ecdysteroids: Detection and Identification....Pages 117-126
 A Note on Overpressure Thin-Layer Chromatography of Ecdysteroids....Pages 127-130
 A Note on Selective Separation of 20,22-Dihydroxyecdysteroids from Insect and Plant Material with Immobilized Phenylboronic Acid....Pages 131-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Isolation and Characterization of a Diuretic Peptide, AP-I, from the Corpora Cardiaca of the House Cricket, Acheta Domesticus ....Pages 139-154
 Manduca Adipokinetic Hormone: Quantification Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Radioimmunoassay....Pages 155-163
Extraction, Purification and Sequencing of Adipokinetic/Red Pigment-Concentrating Hormone-Family Peptides....Pages 165-182
 In Vitro Biosynthesis of Locust Adipokinetic Hormones: Isolation and Identification of the Bioactive Peptides and Their Prohormones....Pages 183-194
A Strategy for the Isolation and Structural Characterization of Certain Insect Myotropic Peptides that Modify the Spontaneous Contractions of the Isolated Cockroach Hindgut....Pages 195-204
Isolation and Identification of Neuropeptides in Locusta Migratoria ....Pages 205-211
Adsorption Chromatography of Small C-Terminal Peptide Amides on Dihydroxyalkyl Bonded Silica High Performance Liquid Chromatography Columns and Application to Purification of Insect Neuropeptides....Pages 213-222
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Isolation and Structural Characterization of Neuroparsins, Polytropic Neurohormones of the African Locust....Pages 223-230
Isolation and Identification of a Sulfakinin-Like Peptide, with Sequence Homology to Vertebrate Gastrin and Cholecystokinin, from the Brain of Locusta Migratoria ....Pages 231-241
Characterization and Sequence Determination of Locust Brain cDNA Clones Selected by Antisera Raised Against Vertebrate Peptide Hormones....Pages 243-250
 A Note On A Comparative Immunocytochemical Study on the Presence of Cam-HrTH-II- and Lom-Akh-I-Like Molecules in the Central Nervous System of Three Stick Insect Species: Carausius Morosus, Sipyloidea Sipylus and Extatosoma Tiaratum ....Pages 251-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Insect Trail Pheromones: A Perspective of Progress....Pages 259-270
Gas Chromatography Linked to Electroantennography: A Versatile Technique for Identifying Insect Semiochemicals....Pages 271-279
Techniques for Isolation and Characterization of Volatile Semiochemicals of Phytophagous Insects....Pages 281-288
The Use of Coupled Gas Chromatography: Electrophysiological Techniques in the Identification of Insect Pheromones....Pages 289-298
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in Insect Pheromone Identification: Three Extreme Case Histories....Pages 299-309
High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in the Analysis of Semiochemicals....Pages 311-319
Analysis of Gland Secretions of Pentatomoidea (Heteroptera) by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Techniques....Pages 321-328
 A Note on Kairomones of the Great European Spruce Bark Beetle Dendoroctonus Micans ....Pages 329-333
 A Note on Pygidial Glands of Primitive Australian Ants: A New Source of Odorous Chemicals....Pages 335-341
 A Note on Volatiles from Exocrine Glands of Some Grassland Ants and Termites from Tropical West Africa....Pages 343-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
 A Note on a Computerized System for Pattern Recognition Designed for Gas Chromatograms....Pages 351-356
Abstracts....Pages 357-360