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Mutation in the Drosophila insulin-like receptor substrate, chico, affects the neuroendocrine stress-reaction
E K Karpova1, I Yu Rauschenbach2, E V Burdina2
1Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent'eva 10, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. nataly@bionet.nsc.ru.
Doklady. Biochemistry and Biophysics
|September 8, 2016
Abstract:
It is shown for the first time that the insulin receptor substrate gene chico controls the functioning of the systems of metabolism of dopamine and juvenile hormone in Drosophila melanogaster females under normal conditions and in thermal stress.
