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The role of juvenile hormone in the control of reproductive function in Drosophila virilis under nutritional stress.
Journal of insect physiology - 1 Apr 2004
Raushenbach I Yu, Gruntenko N E, Bownes M, Adonieva N V, Terashima J, Karpova E K, Faddeeva N V, Chentsova N A
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role of juvenile hormone (JH) in the control of Drosophila reproduction under stress, JH degradation and reproduction were studied under nutritional stress and JH treatment in Drosophila virilis females of wild type (wt) and a heat stress (hs) mutant: this mutant does not respond to heat stress by alterations in JH metabolism and has decreased JH level and fertility under normal conditions. One...
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