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Molting
Known as:
Moultings
, Moltings
, Ecdysis
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Periodic casting off FEATHERS; HAIR; or cuticle. Molting is a process of sloughing or desquamation, especially the shedding of an outer covering and…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
cDNA cloning and characterization of Bombyx mori juvenile hormone esterase: an inducible gene by the imidazole insect growth regulator KK-42.
M. Hirai
,
M. Kamimura
,
+4 authors
T. Shiotsuki
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2002
Corpus ID: 24539692
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Effects of parasitism by the braconid wasp Cotesia congregata on host hemolymph proteins of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.
N. Beckage
,
M. Kanost
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1993
Corpus ID: 22654500
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Isolation and expression of the eclosion hormone gene from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.
F. Horodyski
,
L. Riddiford
,
J. Truman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1989
Corpus ID: 22734156
Eclosion hormone (EH) is a 62-amino acid neuropeptide that initiates the ecdysis behavior of insects. The EH-encoding gene of the…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Purification of a 44 kilodalton protease which mediates the ecdysis of infective Haemonchus contortus larvae.
H. Gamble
,
John P. Purcell
,
R. Fetterer
Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Print)
1989
Corpus ID: 3984601
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
The distribution of juvenile hormone esterase and its interrelationship with other proteins influencing juvenile hormone metabolism in the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni
K. D. Wing
,
T. C. Sparks
,
V. M. Lovell
,
S. O. Levinson
,
B. Hammock
1981
Corpus ID: 38271963
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Epidemiology of East Coast fever: some effects of temperature on the development of Theileria parva in the tick vector, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus
A. Young
,
B. L. Leitch
Parasitology
1981
Corpus ID: 35603373
SUMMARY The moulting behaviour of nymphal Rhipicephalus appendiculatus from the laboratory colony and 3 field strains from Kenya…
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Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Changes in ecdysone content during postembryonic development of the wax moth, Galleria mellonella: the role of the ovary.
W. Bollenbacher
,
H. Zvenko
,
A. K. Kumaran
,
L. Gilbert
General and Comparative Endocrinology
1978
Corpus ID: 41637158
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Evidence for an α-ecdysone cytochrome P-450 mixed function oxidase in insect fat body mitochondria
W. Bollenbacher
,
S. Smith
,
J. Wielgus
,
L. Gilbert
Nature
1977
Corpus ID: 4198156
IT is now evident that α-ecdysone, a polyhydroxylated steroid, is synthesised and secreted by the insect prothoracic (ecdysial…
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The distribution of phenoloxidases and polyphenols during cuticle formation.
M. Locke
,
N. Krishnan
Tissue & Cell
1971
Corpus ID: 1707383
Highly Cited
1953
Highly Cited
1953
THE MOULTING FLUID OF THE CECROPIA SILKWORM
J. Passonneau
,
Carroll M. Williams
1953
Corpus ID: 29085626
1. The initiation of adult development in the pupa of the Cecropia silkworm is accompanied by a retraction of the hypodermis from…
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