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ecdysteroid biosynthetic process

Known as: ecdysteroid anabolism, ecdysteroid biosynthesis, ecdysteroid synthesis 
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of ecdysteroids, a group of polyhydroxylated ketosteroids which initiate post… Expand
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2011
2011
Bombyx orcokinins are brain‐gut peptides involved in the neuronal regulation of ecdysteroidogenesis
Biosynthesis of ecdysteroids, the insect steroid hormones controlling gene expression during molting and metamorphosis, takes… Expand
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Non-molting glossy/shroud encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the ‘Black Box’ of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway
In insects, the precise timing of molting and metamorphosis is strictly guided by a principal steroid hormone, ecdysone. Among… Expand
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Halloween genes and nuclear receptors in ecdysteroid biosynthesis and signalling in the pea aphid
The pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) is the first whole genome sequenced insect with a hemimetabolic development and an emerging… Expand
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2009
2009
Embryonic diapause highlighted by differential expression of mRNAs for ecdysteroidogenesis, transcription and lipid sparing in the cricket Allonemobius socius
SUMMARY Embryos of the ground cricket, Allonemobius socius, enter diapause 4–5 days post-oviposition and overwinter in this… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
CYP306A1, a Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, Is Essential for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis in the Prothoracic Glands of Bombyx and Drosophila*
Ecdysteroids mediate a wide variety of developmental and physiological events in insects. In the postembryonic development of… Expand
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Ecdysteroids during Early Embryonic Development in Silkworm Bombyx mori: Metabolism and Functions
Abstract It has been well established that eggs of insects, including those of the silkworm Bombyx mori, contain various… Expand
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2004
2004
The Drosophila gene Start1: a putative cholesterol transporter and key regulator of ecdysteroid synthesis.
Human metastatic lymph node 64 (MLN64) is a transmembrane protein that shares homology with the cholesterol-binding vertebrate… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
On the distribution of phytoecdysteroids in plants
Abstract: The occurrence and levels of phytoecdysteroids in the seeds and other parts of plants grown from the seeds of 180… Expand
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Changes in general and specific protein synthesis that accompany ecdysteroid synthesis in stimulated prothoracic glands of Manduca sexta.
The prothoracic glands of fifth instar Manduca sexta larvae respond to stimulation by the brain neuropeptide, prothoracicotropic… Expand
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
S6 phosphorylation results from prothoracicotropic hormone stimulation of insect prothoracic glands: a role for S6 kinase.
The insect prothoracic glands are the source of steroidal molting hormone precursors and the glands are stimulated by a brain… Expand
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