Juvenile hormone regulates butterfly larval pattern switches

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5866, 2008, Pages 1061-

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a,b   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

BUTTERFLY; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LARVA;

BUTTERFLY; CATERPILLAR; COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; METHOPRENE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIGMENTATION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 39749088721     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149786     Document Type: Short Survey

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4. We would like to thank P. M. Brakefield for critical reading and many helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and Research Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists. The nucleotide sequences of HCP1, HCP2, and BBP have been deposited with GenBank (accession numbers AB264673, AB264675, and AB264632, respectively).