The steroid hormone ecdysone is the central regulator of insect developmental transitions.
Recent new advances in our understanding of ecdysone action have relied heavily on the …

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 …

ALTHOUGH the biological activity of the insect moulting hormone ecdysone, is manifested
through a hormonally regulated transcriptional cascade associated with chromosomal …

The steroid hormone ecdysone triggers coordinate changes in Drosophila tissue
development that result in metamorphosis. To advance our understanding of the genetic …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the premetamorphic actions and general
consideration of cellular and molecular actions of juvenile hormone (JH). The chapter …

In D. melanogaster a pulse of the steroid hormone ecdysone triggers the larval-to-adult
metamorphosis, a complex process in which this hormone induces imaginal tissues to …

Genetic control elements are usually situated in local regions of chromatin that are
hypersensitive to structural probes such as DNase I. We have reconstructed the chromatin …

We describe the identification and characterization of a conserved downstream basal
promoter element that is present in a subset of Drosophila TATA-box-deficient (TATA-less) …

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Interest in the Ets proteins has grown enormously over the last decade. The v‐ets oncogene
was originally discovered as part of a fusion protein expressed by a transforming retrovirus …