Control mechanisms for vitellogenin synthesis in mosquitoes
- 1 December 1984
- Vol. 1 (6) , 264-267
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.950010608
Abstract
Earlier investigations of the hormonal control of vitellogenin (egg‐yolk protein) synthesis in mosquitoes relied on microsurgical manipulations to identify organs that secrete the various hormones that stimulate or inhibit vitellogenesis. Advances in the last 10 years, using radioimmunoassays, HPLC, mass spectrometry and tissue‐culture incubations, have shown that the control mechanism involves a complex interaction between ecdysteroids, juvenile hormones and peptide hormones.Keywords
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