Hormonal Regulation of Insect Metamorphosis with Special Reference to Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-100

  Hiruma, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Kaneko, Yu ^a,b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allatotropin; Bombyx mori; Corpora allata; Dopamine; Ecdysone; Juvenile hormone; Metamorphosis; Methoprene tolerant; Mevalonate pathway; SNPF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872588081     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385979-2.00003-4     Document Type: Chapter

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