Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
Monday, December 27, 2010 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Just as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids, play an important role as butterflies, fruit flies and mosquitoes transform their body structures as they molt from larva to pupa and then adults.