“…Curious that agents which stimulate hindgut contractions might also enhance excretory activity in Malpighian tubules upstream, we discovered that leucokinin has diuretic effects in Malpighian tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (Hayes et al, 1989). Since then, the stimulation of fluid secretion by leucokinin and other kinins has been found in Malpighian tubules of the house cricket (Coast et al, 1990), locust (Thompson et al, 1995), tobacco hornworm (Blackburn et al, 1995), fruit fly (O'Donnell et al, 1996) and housefly (Iaboni et al, 1998). In Malpighian tubules of the yellow fever mosquito, locust and cricket, leucokinin is thought to increase transepithelial secretion of Cl -, thereby increasing the transepithelial secretion of Na + , K + and water (Coast, 2001;Pannabecker et al, 1993).…”