• Contribution to the study of insect stress hormones 

      Alquicer Barrera, Glenda Paola (Jihočeská univerzita, 2009)
      The present study considers the versatile role of adipokinetic hormones (AKHs). Using the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus as a model insect, the hypothesis that AKHs mediate stress response mechanisms was explored. The outcome ...