Article
[The mechanism of the effect of apterous56f mutation on the reproductive function of Drosophila melanogaster].
Genetika - 1 Feb 2006
Raushenbakh I Iu, Gruntenko N E, Karpova e K, Adon'eva N V, Alekseev A A, Chentsova N A, Shumnaia L V, Faddeeva N V
Abstract excerpt
The effects of L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) and 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) were studied with respect to the content of dopamine (DA), intensity of the juvenile hormone (JH) degradation, and fecundity of the wildtype flies (Canton S) and JH-deficient apterous56f mutants (in young females, carrying this mutation, the levels of DA and 20E production were strongly increased). Fly feeding with L-DOPA proved to...
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