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The mutation without children(rgl) causes ecdysteroid deficiency in third-instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster.
Developmental biology - 1 Oct 2000
Wismar J, Habtemichael N, Warren J T, Dai J D, Gilbert L I, Gateff E
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Larvae homozygous for the recessive lethal allele without children(rgl) (woc(rgl)) fail to pupariate. Application of exogenous 20-hydroxyecdysone elicits puparium formation and pupation. Ecdysteroid titer measurements on mutant larvae show an endocrine deficiency in the brain-ring gland complex, which normally synthesizes ecdysone, resulting in a failure of the larvae to achieve a threshold whole body hormone...
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