Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the ecdysone receptors and their biological
actions. It also summarizes the insect endocrinology and the roles of these steroids in the …

Drosophila oogenesis involves the coordinated development of germ cells and an overlying
follicular epithelium. The follicle cells provide a genetically tractable system to investigate …

The three Drosophila EcR isoforms differ only at their N termini; thus, they share the
conserved ligand-binding domain transcriptional activation function (AF2) and only differ in …

The years following the 1985 publication of Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry
and Pharmacology have been marked by stunning developments in insect science. A …

In many developmental processes, polyploid cells are generated by a variation of the normal
cell cycle called the endocycle in which cells increase their genomic content without …

N6-methyladenosine is a nonediting RNA modification found in mRNA of all eukaryotes,
from yeast to humans. Although the functional significance of N6-methyladenosine is …

The Notch signaling pathway controls the follicle cell mitotic-to-endocycle transition in
Drosophila oogenesis by stopping the mitotic cycle and promoting the endocycle. To …

Drosophila ovarian germline stem cells (GSCs) are a powerful model for stem cell research.
In this study, we use single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq), an RNAi screen and …

In Drosophila and other insects egg production is related to the nutrients available.
Somehow the nutritional status of the environment is translated into hormonal signs that can …

The phylum Arthropoda contains the largest number of described living animal species, with
insects and crustaceans dominating the terrestrial and aquatic environments, respectively …