Roles of ecdysteroids for progression of reproductive cycle in the fresh water crustacean Daphnia magna

How are comparative genomics and the study of microRNAs changing our views on arthropod endocrinology and adaptations to the environment?

(2013) Nathan J. Kenny et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Crustacean oxi-reductases protein sequences derived from a functional genomic project potentially involved in ecdysteroid hormones metabolism – A starting point for function examination

(2013) Moshe Tom et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Regulatory mechanisms of ecdysone-inducible Blimp-1 encoding a transcriptional repressor that is important for the prepupal development in Drosophila

(2011) Kazutaka Akagi et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Ecdysteroids affectDrosophilaovarian stem cell niche formation and early germline differentiation

(2011) Annekatrin König et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Role of the Halloween genes, Spook and Phantom in ecdysteroidogenesis in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

(2011) Elisabeth Marchal et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

(2011) J. K. Colbourne et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental Sex Determination in the Branchiopod Crustacean Daphnia magna: Deep Conservation of a Doublesex Gene in the Sex-Determining Pathway

(2011) Yasuhiko Kato et al.   PLoS Genetics

Regulation and dysregulation of vitellogenin mRNA accumulation in daphnids (Daphnia magna)

(2010) Bethany R. Hannas et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

The Steroid Hormone Ecdysone Functions with Intrinsic Chromatin Remodeling Factors to Control Female Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila

(2010) Elizabeth T. Ables et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Abortive meiosis in the oogenesis of parthenogenetic Daphnia pulex

(2010) Chizue Hiruta et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Non-molting glossy/shroud encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the 'Black Box' of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway

(2010) R. Niwa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

CYP18A1, a key enzyme of Drosophila steroid hormone inactivation, is essential for metamorphosis

(2010) Emilie Guittard et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Reproductive regulators in decapod crustaceans: an overview

(2010) G. P. C. Nagaraju   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Inhibitory effect of molt-inhibiting hormone onphantomexpression in the Y-organ of the kuruma prawn,Marsupenaeus japonicus

(2009) Hideaki Asazuma et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Identification and expression profile of Halloween genes involved in ecdysteroid biosynthesis in Spodoptera littoralis

(2009) Masatoshi Iga et al.   PEPTIDES

Daphnia Halloween genes that encode cytochrome P450s mediating the synthesis of the arthropod molting hormone: Evolutionary implications

(2008) Kim F Rewitz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY