Article
Stress response in a juvenile hormone-deficient Drosophila melanogaster mutant apterous56f.
Insect molecular biology - 1 Aug 2003
Gruntenko N E, Chentsova N A, Andreenkova E V, Bownes M, Segal D, Adonyeva N V, Rauschenbach I Yu
Abstract excerpt
The apterous56f (ap56f) mutation leads to increases in juvenile hormone (JH) degradation levels and JH-esterase makes a greater contribution to the increase than JH-epoxide hydrolase. Dopamine levels in ap56f females, but not males, are higher than in wild-type. JH treatment of ap56f and wild-type females decreases their dopamine levels. ap56f females, but not males, produce less progeny. Survival under heat...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
- Dopamine
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Epoxide Hydrolases
- Female
- Fertility
- Gene Expression
- HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
