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Science 30 September 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4311, pp. 1369 - 1371
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4311.1369
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Antiallatotropins: Inhibition of Corpus Allatum Development

WILLIAM S. BOWERS 1 and RAFAEL MARTINEZ-PARDO 2

1 Department of Entomology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva 14456
2 Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos, Valencia, Spain

Treatment of newly eclosed adult milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) females with precocene 2 prevents secretion of juvenile hormone by inhibition of postimaginal development of the corpus allatum. Ovarian development which is dependent upon juvenile hormone is prevented or reversed, depending upon the timing of precocene treatment. Juvenile hormone secretion is shown to be related to the development of the corpus allatum.

Submitted on March 9, 1977
Revised on April 29, 1977


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Natural and Synthetic Allatotoxins: Suicide Substrates for Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis.
W. S. BOWERS, P. H. EVANS, P. A. MARSELLA, D. M. SODERLUND, and F. BETTARINI (1982)
Science 217, 647-648
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