cDNA cloning and transcript distribution of two novel members of the neuroparsin peptide family in a hemipteran insect (Nezara viridula) and a decapod crustacean (Jasus lalandii)

- Cloning of two novel neuroparsin precursors from Nezara viridula (insect) and Jasus lalandii (decapod crustacean).
- Neuroparsin is not only expressed in neural tissues.
- Neuroparsin expression pattern is not identical in the insect and the decapod.
- Jasla-NP is similar to NPs from decapods.
- Nezvi-NP is similar to insect NPs and Daphnia pulex (cladoceran crustacean) NP is more similar to insect than to decapod NPs.