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Wasp Kinins and Kinin Analogues

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Animal Toxins

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Due to the powerful venoms secreted by bees, social wasps, and ants, all belonging to the order of the Hymenoptera, these insects appear early in man’s history and prehistory (Piek, 1986). According to Westwood (1840) the Hymenoptera are distinguished as an order from other insects by the number, the comparative size and the structure of the wings, the mandibulated mouth enclosing the labium ensheated by the maxillae, the ovipositor, or the sting, and the nature of their metamorphosis. In the modern literature the Hymenoptera are normally divided into the suborders Symphyta and Apocrita. The Symphyta are phytophagous Hymenoptera, the females of which deposit their eggs in plant tissues. Haviland (1922) suggested that the evolutionary ancestors of Apocrita might have laid eggs in or nearby other plant parasitic larvae and may have become in this way parasitic on these insects. This would then represent the first evolutionary step in the development of the hymenopteran venom system.

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Piek, T. (2000). Wasp Kinins and Kinin Analogues. In: Rochat, H., Martin-Eauclaire, MF. (eds) Animal Toxins. Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8466-2_7

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