Endocrine interactions between plants and animals: Implications of exogenous hormone sources for the evolution of hormone signaling

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 455-461

  Miller, Ashley E M ^a   Heyland, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution of endocrine signaling; Insect hormones; Nuclear hormone receptors; Plant animal interactions; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; HORMONE PRECURSOR; INSECT HORMONE; IODINE; JUVENILE HORMONE; RETINOID; STEROID HORMONE; STEROL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ALGA; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; ECHINODERM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; INSECT; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY FEEDING RELATIONSHIP; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77951974068     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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