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Ecdysteroids are a class of highly polar steroid hormones that regulate insect development; they are also called molting hormones. The first representative, ecdysone, was isolated in crystalline form more than 30 years ago by Butenandt and Karlson (1954) and its metabolism was studied (Karlson and Koolman 1973; Koolman et al. 1973, 1979). A number of related ecdysteroid hormones have been subsequently purified in various laboratories (Wyatt 1972).
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Westphal, U. (1986). Ecdysteroid-Binding Proteins. In: Steroid-Protein Interactions II. Monographs on Endocrinology, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82486-9_13
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