The developmental control of size in insects

The mechanisms that control the sizes of a body and its many parts remain among the great puzzles in developmental biology. Why do animals grow to a species-specific body size, and how is the relative growth of their body parts controlled to so they grow to the right size, and in the correct proport...

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Main Author: Nijhout, H. Frederik (author)
Other Authors: Riddiford, Lynn M. (author), Mirth, Christen (author), Shingleton, Alexander W. (author), Suzuki, Yuichiro (author), Callier, Viviane (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Animals
Body Size
Drosophila melanogaster
Ecdysone
Insulin
Larva
Manduca
Signal Transduction
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/602
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt:10400.7/602

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/602

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