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Science 9 January 1970:
Vol. 167. no. 3915, pp. 191 - 192
DOI: 10.1126/science.167.3915.191
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Insect Juvenile Hormone: Activity of Selected Terpenoid Compounds

Meyer Schwarz 1, Philip E. Sonnet 1, and Nobel Wakabayashi 1

1 Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

A nuimber of compounds with terpenoid skeletons attached to various functional groups were prepared and tested for their effects as a juvenile hormone in the yellow mealworm Tenebrio molitor. Several of these compounds showed high activity.


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