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Endocrine Timing Signals that Direct Ecdysial Physiology and Behavior

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Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology · 1986

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Although the event of ecdysis, when the old cuticle is shed, is brief compared to the morphogenetic and synthetic developmental program that must precede it, nevertheless ecdysis is a particularly vulnerable time in the insect’s life, a periodically repeated crisis when the risks of injury and predation are high, (see Reynolds, 1980).

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Reynolds, S.E. (1986). Endocrine Timing Signals that Direct Ecdysial Physiology and Behavior. In: Bořkovec, A.B., Gelman, D.B. (eds) Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology · 1986. Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4832-3_3

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