Timing is everything: PTTH mediated DHR4 nucleocytoplasmic trafficking sets the tempo of drosophila steroid production

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Rewitz, Kim F ^a   O'Connor, Michael B ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; Critical weight; Cyp6t3; Dhr4; Metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872535129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00108     Document Type: Article

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