The Coming of Age of Insulin-Signalling in Insects

• Main Author: Colin G.H. Steel (auth)
• Other Authors: Xanthe Vafopoulou (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Physiology; insulin-like proteins; timekeeping; interactions of signaling pathways; nutrition and metabolism; Growth and Development
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The new millennium has seen a major paradigm shift in insect endocrinology. Great advancements are being made which establish that nutrition and growth play a central role in diverse cellular and physiological phenomena during insect development and reproduction. Nutrition affects rates of growth an...