Body size determination in insects: a review and synthesis of size- and brain-dependent and independent mechanisms

Secreted Peptide Dilp8 Coordinates Drosophila Tissue Growth with Developmental Timing

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Effects of Oxygen on Growth and Size: Synthesis of Molecular, Organismal, and Evolutionary Studies with Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) Jon F. Harrison et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Control of body size in C. elegans dependent on food and insulin/IGF-1 signal

(2011) Shuhei So et al.   GENES TO CELLS

Chronic malnutrition favours smaller critical size for metamorphosis initiation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) R. K. VIJENDRAVARMA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The effect of developmental stage on the sensitivity of cell and body size to hypoxia in Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) E. C. Heinrich et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nutritional sensitivity of fifth instar prothoracic glands in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta

(2011) Amy L. Walsh et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Control of body size by oxygen supply reveals size-dependent and size-independent mechanisms of molting and metamorphosis

(2011) V. Callier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bombyx orcokinins are brain-gut peptides involved in the neuronal regulation of ecdysteroidogenesis

(2010) Naoki Yamanaka et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Silencing of the hypoxia inducible factor 1 –HIF-1- obliterates the effects of hypoxia on glucose and lactate concentrations in a tissue-specific manner in the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

(2010) José G. Soñanez-Organis et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Conflicting processes in the evolution of body size and development time

(2010) H. F. Nijhout et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Atmospheric oxygen level and the evolution of insect body size

(2010) J. F. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

LIFE-HISTORY CONSEQUENCES OF ADAPTATION TO LARVAL NUTRITIONAL STRESS INDROSOPHILA

(2009) Munjong Kolss et al.   EVOLUTION

Atmospheric Hypoxia Limits Selection for Large Body Size in Insects

(2009) C. Jaco Klok et al.   PLoS One

Increased Insulin/Insulin Growth Factor Signaling Advances the Onset of Metamorphosis in Drosophila

(2009) Magdalena A. Walkiewicz et al.   PLoS One

The Insect Neuropeptide PTTH Activates Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Torso to Initiate Metamorphosis

(2009) K. F. Rewitz et al.   SCIENCE

The control of size in animals: insights from selector genes

(2008) Michael A. Crickmore et al.   BIOESSAYS

Imaginal discs regulate developmental timing in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Bradley C. Stieper et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The TOR Pathway Couples Nutrition and Developmental Timing in Drosophila

(2008) Sophie Layalle et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Insulin stimulates ecdysteroidogenesis by prothoracic glands in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2008) Shi-Hong Gu et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY