Research Topics

Species

Gene Symbol: LOC658772

Description: SIFamide receptor

Alias: TrcSIFR, neuropeptide FF receptor 2, AUGUSTUS-3.0.2_11156, GLEAN_11156, Neuropeptide Y receptor-like Protein

Species: red flour beetle

J rgensen L, Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Grimmelikhuijzen C. Molecular identification of the first SIFamide receptor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006;340:696-701 pubmed publisher

..This paper is the first report on the identification of a SIFamide receptor...
Li B, Predel R, Neupert S, Hauser F, Tanaka Y, Cazzamali G, et al. Genomics, transcriptomics, and peptidomics of neuropeptides and protein hormones in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Genome Res. 2008;18:113-22 pubmed

..Our analysis of Tribolium indicates that, during insect evolution, genes for neuropeptides and protein hormones are often duplicated or lost...
Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Park Y, Li B, Tanaka Y, et al. A genome-wide inventory of neurohormone GPCRs in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2008;29:142-65 pubmed

..It also shows that Drosophila is not a good representative of all insects, because several of the hormonal systems that we now find in Tribolium do not exist in Drosophila. ..