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Developmental and Juvenile Hormone Control of Gene Expression in Locust Fat Body

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Molecular Insect Science

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The expression of particular genes in multicellular eukaryotes may be constrained by specificity for tissue, developmental stage, sex and modulation by extracellular factors. In insects, tissue specificity is apparent as in other animal groups, while stage specificity is accentuated by the radical developmental events of molting and metamorphosis. The mechanisms used for sex limitation of gene expression in insects (assuming that we can generalize from the Drosophila melanogaster model), involve a cascade of sex-specific transcript splicing (Baker, 1989), and differ profoundly from the vertebrate mechanisms which depend on sex-specific hormones. In differentiated cells, as a result of these factors, genes may either be repressed or exist in an expressible state. In the latter case, they may be expressed either constitutively or subject to modulation by factors such as hormones. In insect development, while coordination is effected by a complex of neurohormones, the immediate modulation of the gene activities is largely the function of the two types of lipoidal hormones, ecdysones and juvenile hormones (JHs).

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Wyatt, G.R. (1990). Developmental and Juvenile Hormone Control of Gene Expression in Locust Fat Body. In: Hagedorn, H.H., Hildebrand, J.G., Kidwell, M.G., Law, J.H. (eds) Molecular Insect Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3668-4_20

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