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A Minimal Model Of Metamorphosis: Fat Body Competence to Respond to Juvenile Hormone

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Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition

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The ontogeny of larval forms of invertebrates and vertebrates has fascinated embryologists and volutionary biologists for centuries (Gould, 1977). We are now at a stage when appropriate choices of models of metazoan developmental phenomena may allow us to understand them on a mechanistic and molecular level. Success in this venture may depend on the ultimate complexity of the model chosen to study and for this reason potential models of minimal complexity should be sought.

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    Joseph G. Kunkel

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  1. Texas A & M University, Collage Station, Texas, USA

    Govindan Bhaskaran

  2. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    Stanley Friedman

  3. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    J. G. Rodriguez

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Kunkel, J.G. (1981). A Minimal Model Of Metamorphosis: Fat Body Competence to Respond to Juvenile Hormone. In: Bhaskaran, G., Friedman, S., Rodriguez, J.G. (eds) Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3210-7_8

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