Ecdysone and insect immunity: the maturation of the inducibility of the diptericin gene in Drosophila larvae.

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The developmental analysis of the inducibility of the Drosophila diptericin gene promoter as a response to septic injury shows an important increase in the response during the third larval instar leading to a maximum in late larvae and early prepupae. This increase, or maturation, is temporally correlated with known ecdysone induced events of the salivary gland and we now present evidence, using wild type and...

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