Hemolymph ecdysteroid titer and ecdysteroid-dependent developmental events in the last-larval stadium of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: Role of low ecdysteroid titer in larval-pupal metamorphosis and a reappraisal of the head critical period

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 867-881

  Sakurai, Sho ^a   Kaya, Masae ^a   Satake, Shin'Ichirol ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecdysone; Gut purge; Prothoracic gland; Prothoracicotropic hormone; PTTH; Spinneret pigmentation

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; HEMOLYMPH; HORMONE RELEASE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PIGMENTATION; SILKWORM; STEROID RELEASE;

EID: 0032192677     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(98)00075-4     Document Type: Article

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