Crustaceans are major constituents to aquatic ecosystems that provide a variety of
ecological and economic services. Individual crustacean species are adept at occupying …

Crustaceans produce complex yolk proteins to meet the substrate and energy requirements
of embryonic development. Early electron microscopic investigations point to a biphasic yolk …

About 90% of the extant species of the Decapoda live in oceans and adjacent coastal and
estuarine regions, and most of them pass through a complex life history comprising a …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the juvenile hormones (JH). The JH, a family of
acyclic sesquiterpenoids, are essential to insect development and reproduction. This …

Methyl farnesoate (MF) is a unepoxidated form of insect juvenile hormone (JH) III that is
secreted by the mandibular organ (MO) in several crustaceans. MF was first isolated from …

Arthropod molting and reproduction are precisely controlled by the levels of
sesquiterpenoids, a class of C15 hormones derived from three isoprene units. The two major …

Global aquaculture has expanded rapidly to address the increasing demand for aquatic
protein needs and an uncertain future for wild fisheries. To date, however, most farmed …

Since the discovery that methyl farnesoate (MF), the unepoxidated form of the insect juvenile
hormone (JHIII), is produced by mandibular organs of numerous crustaceans, extensive …

Arthropods have long been utilized as models to explore molecular function, and the
findings derived from them can be applied throughout metazoa, including as a basis for …

Background Crustacean moulting is a complex process involving many regulatory pathways.
A holistic approach to examine differential gene expression profiles of transcripts relevant to …