G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are an important receptor class that can have various types of ligands, including neuropeptides and biogenic amines. Many GPCR families are conserved throughout animals, highlighting their importance in neuronal and hormonal signaling. While the ligands of many human GPCRs and GPCRs from popular model organisms are known, most of the GPCRs of other animals remain without a known ligand (“orphan GPCRs”) or their ligands have only been predicted based on sequence similarity to known GPCRs. Especially within the understudied phylum of the lophotrochozoa, few GPCRs have been biochemically characterized. In this thesis, I present an approach for the large-scale deorphanization of G-protein coupled receptors a...