Prediction of neuropeptide precursors and differential expression of adipokinetic hormone/corazonin-related peptide, hugin and corazonin in the brain of malaria vector Nyssorhynchus albimanus during a Plasmodium berghei infection

•We describe precursors that predicted at least sixty neuropeptides in Ny. albimanus.•At least 16 precursors are encoded in the Ny. albimanus brain.•Myosuppressin neuropeptide precursor was identified in Ny albimanus.•acp and hugin transcripts increased in Ny. albimanus brains infected with P. berghei.