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Valeria Silva1, Robert Scott2, Paulina Guajardo1

  • 1Instituto de Neurociencias, and Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.

PLoS genetics
|August 20, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

研究者達は,ドロソフィラの産卵ホルモン受容体 (EHR) を特定し,それは昆虫の化に極めて重要です. この発見により ホルモンが エクディシスのような複雑な行動を制御し 信号伝達経路の相互作用が明らかになりました

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