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Eat to reproduce: a key role for the insulin signaling pathway in adult insects

Insects, like all heterotrophic organisms, acquire from their food the nutrients that are essential for anabolic processes that lead to growth (larval stages) or reproduction (adult stage). In adult females, this nutritional input is processed and results in a very specific output, i.e., the product...

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Autores principales: Badisco, Liesbeth, Van Wielendaele, Pieter, Vanden Broeck, Jozef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23966944
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00202