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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Brown MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205109 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annual review of entomology 20090101
Ecdysteroids are multifunctional hormones in male and female arthropods and are stored in oocytes for use during embryogenesis. Ecdysteroid biosynthesis and its hormonal regulation are demonstrated for insect gonads, but not for the gonads of other arthropods. The Y-organ in the cephalothorax of crustaceans and the integument of ticks are sources of secreted ecdysteroids in adults, as in earlier stages, but the tissue source is not known for adults in many arthropod groups. Ecdysteroid metabolis ...[more]