Effect of bisacylhydrazine ecdysteroid mimics (RH-5849 and RH-5992) on chromosomal puffing, imaginal disc proliferation and pupariation in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1015-1027

  Farkaš, Robert ^a   Sláma, Karel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bisacylhydrazine insecticides; Chromosomal puffing; Drosophila; Ecdysone deficient mutants; Imaginal discs; Non steroidal ecdysone mimics; Polytene chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ECDYSTEROID; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; RH 5849; TEBUFENOZIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PUFF; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLTING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN SECRETION; SALIVARY GLAND;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSONE; HYDRAZINES; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MOLTING;

EID: 0344931880     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00077-6     Document Type: Article

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