Ecdysone regulation of cuticle protein g
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James W. Fristrom; Sherry Alexander; Elizabeth Brown; John Doctor; Kim Fechtel;
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Article
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1986
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The deposition and apolysis of insect cuticles have long been known to be regulated by ecdysone. Unsclerotized, chitin-containing procuticles contain evolutionarily conserved, hydrophobic proteins that are soluble in solutions of denaturing agents. The pupal procuticle of Drosophila is deposited by