La hormona juvenil regula los interruptores de patrones de las larvas de mariposas

Ryo Futahashi1, Haruhiko Fujiwara

  • 1Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bioscience Building 501, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 23, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

La hormona juvenil (JH) regula los cambios dramáticos en el patrón de color en las orugas Papilio xuthus. La reducción de los niveles de JH desencadena un cambio de un pájaro que deja caer el patrón de imitación a un patrón críptico de camuflaje de hojas.

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