Juvenile hormone stimulation of ornithin
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Mark J. Birnbaum; Lawrence I. Gilbert
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Article
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1990
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, becomes elevated in intact female Drosophila melanogaster shortly after adult eclosion. This activity reaches a peak at 24 h following eclosion, and then drops to lower levels by 48 h. This pattern is