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THE PROTHORACICOSTATIC PEPTIDE THAT INHIBITS ECDYSTEROIDOGENESIS
Author(s) -
Yuejin HUA,
Xin LIU,
Bujin XU
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2002.tb00463.x
Subject(s) - biology , peptide , bombyx mori , metamorphosis , function (biology) , ecdysone , insect , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , hormone , biochemistry , ecology , gene , larva
The paper generalizes advances of a new insect brain neuroeptide, prothoracicostatic peptide, which plays an important role in the insect metamorphosis, and was found and identified from silkworn Bombyx mori recent years. The paper intduces its research background, primacy structure, function, mutual relationship between it and prothoracicotmpic hormone as well as the results of molecular biology research. The evaluation and expectation of this peptide are discussed.