Natural and Synthetic Allatotoxins: Suicide Substrates for Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis
- 13 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4560) , 647-648
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4560.647
Abstract
Cytotoxic agents with antijuvenile hormone activity in insects have been discovered. Their mechanism of action may involve an oxidative bioactivation into a reactive quinone methide.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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