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Transcript profiling of pacifastin-like peptide precursors in crowd- and isolated-reared desert locusts.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 30 Apr 2004
Simonet Gert, Claeys Ilse, Breugelmans Bert, Van Soest Sofie, De Loof Arnold, Vanden Broeck Jozef
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Locusts have fascinated researchers for several decades, because they have the remarkable ability to undergo phase transition from the harmless solitary to the swarm-forming gregarious phase. However, the physiological and endocrine mechanisms, underlying phase polymorphism, are only partially unravelled. Nevertheless, besides the 'classical' hormones, pacifastin-related peptides have been suggested to play a...
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