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Lepidopteran Larval Midgut During Prepupal Instar: Digestion or Self-Digestion?
26 Nov 2007
Abstract excerpt
Programmed cell death (PCD) is crucial in body restructuring during metamorphosis of holometabolous insects (those that have a pupal stage between the final larval and adult stages). Besides apoptosis, an increasing body of evidence indicates that in several insect species programmed autophagy also plays a key role in these developmental processes. We have recently characterized the midgut replacement process in...
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