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SUBMITTER: Kang DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4150688 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang David S DS Denlinger David L DL Sim Cheolho C
Journal of insect physiology 20140320
The cessation of juvenile hormone (JH) production is a key endocrine event that halts ovarian development and hence initiates diapause in females of the mosquito, Culex pipiens. The shutdown in endocrine activity of the corpora allata (CA), the source of JH, was manifested in the smaller size of CA in females reared under short daylengths (diapause) compared to those reared under long daylengths (nondiapause), as well as in low expression of the mRNA encoding allatotropin, the neuropeptide that ...[more]