Ecdysone coordinates plastic growth with robust pattern in the developing wing
eLife, 2022 Animals develop in unpredictable, variable environments. In response to environmental change, some aspects of development adjust to generate plastic phenotypes.
André Nogueira Alves +4 more
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Ecdysone Quantification from Whole Body Samples of Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
Bio-Protocol, 2021 Steroid hormones strictly control the timing of sexual maturation and final body size both in vertebrates and invertebrates. In insects, the steroid hormone ecdysone controls the timing of the molts between larval instars as well as the transition to ...
Takashi Koyama, Christen Mirth
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Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of ecdysone response
Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2019 The mechanisms of ecdysone-dependent expression have been studied for many decades. Initially, the activation of individual genes under the influence of ecdysone was studied on the model of polythene chromosomes from salivary glands of Drosophila ...
M. Yu. Mazina, N. E. Vorobyeva
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Ecdysone Elicits Chronic Renal Impairment via Mineralocorticoid-Like Pathogenic Activities [PDF]
Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2018 Background/Aims: Ecdysteroids are steroidal insect molting hormones that also exist in herbs. Ecdysteroid-containing adaptogens have been popularly used to improve well-being and by bodybuilders for muscle growth.
Minglei Lu +9 more
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The insulin and ecdysone pathways as regulators of diapause termination: transcriptional and protein insights from Pieris napi [PDF]
BMC GenomicsInsect diapause is a pre-programmed alternative developmental pathway induced to survive adverse environmental conditions and is characterized by an absence of development, metabolic suppression and increased stress resistance.
Philip Süess +6 more
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A Genetic Mosaic Screen Reveals Ecdysone-Responsive Genes Regulating Drosophila Oogenesis
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2016 Multiple aspects of Drosophila oogenesis, including germline stem cell activity, germ cell differentiation, and follicle survival, are regulated by the steroid hormone ecdysone.
Elizabeth T. Ables +4 more
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Azadirachtin disrupts ecdysone signaling and alters sand fly immunity [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Leishmaniasis is a group of neglected vector-borne diseases transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies. Leishmania parasites must overcome various defenses in the sand fly midgut, including the insects’s immune response.
Cecilia Stahl Vieira +4 more
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Nutritional control of body size through FoxO-Ultraspiracle mediated ecdysone biosynthesis [PDF]
eLife, 2014 Despite their fundamental importance for body size regulation, the mechanisms that stop growth are poorly understood. In Drosophila melanogaster, growth ceases in response to a peak of the molting hormone ecdysone that coincides with a nutrition ...
Takashi Koyama +4 more
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Bicistronic Expression of Ecdysone-Inducible Receptors in Mammalian Cells
BioTechniques, 2001 The recent emergence of inducible expression systems for mammalian cells has greatly facilitated the in vivo analysis of gene function. The ecdysone-inducible expression system is particularly attractive because of (i) extremely low basal expression and ...
Denise L. Wyborski +2 more
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Larval diapause termination in the bamboo borer, Omphisa fuscidentalis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In insects, juvenile hormone (JH) and 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) regulate larval growth and molting. However, little is known about how this cooperative control is terminating larval diapause especially in the bamboo borer, Omphisa fuscidentalis.
Suphawan Suang +7 more
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