Amino Acids and TOR Signaling Promote Prothoracic Gland Growth and the Initiation of Larval Molts in the Tobacco Hornworm Manduca sexta

Molting in arthropods is orchestrated by a series of endocrine changes that occur towards the end of an instar. However, little is understood about the mechanisms that trigger these endocrine changes. Here, nutritional inputs were manipulated to investigate the minimal nutritional inputs required fo...

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Main Authors: Kemirembe, Karen, Liebmann, Kate, Bootes, Abigail, Smith, Wendy A., Suzuki, Yuichiro
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440373/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984508
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044429
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