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Evolutionary endocrinology of juvenile hormone esterase in Gryllus assimilis: direct and correlated responses to selection.
Genetics - 1 Nov 1995
Zera A J, Zhang C
Abstract excerpt
Hemolymph juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) activity on the third day of the last stadium in the cricket, Gryllus assimilis, exhibited a significant response to selection in each of six replicate lines. Mean realized heritability was 0.26 +/- 0.04. The response was due to changes in whole-organism enzyme activity as well as to changes in the proportion of enzyme allocated to the hemolymph compartment. In vivo...
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