Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 15:30 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 moult from larva to pupa and then adults...

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