Physiological and Molecular Basis of Insect Molting Hormone Action

1 Physiological and Molecular Basis of Insect Molting Hormone Action 

Arthropods achieve growth and development by molting several times as immature nymphal or larval instars. The molting requirement is necessitated due to 

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The manifestation of 20E effects during molting or other developmental stages (e.g., reproduction) are brought about by the interaction of 20E with the ecdysone 

Several years after the first insecticidal bisacylhydrazine (Fig. 25.1.1 2) was seren-dipitously discovered at the Rohm and Haas Company [9] the first prototype of a bona fide non-steroidal ecdysone agonist bisacylhydrazine, RH-5849 (Fig. 25.1.1  

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