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Flight enhances juvenile hormone inactivation inDanaus plexippus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Danaidae)

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Adult Monarch butterflies injected with3H-juvenile hormone (JH) showed a significant increase in haemolymph JH metabolites after a 40 min flight compared to unflown controls. In addition, haemolymph enzymatic JH metabolism was shown to increase with thoracic temperature increases previously shown to be associated with flight.

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  1. Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University, 21205, Baltimore, (Maryland), USA

    C. A. Lessman & W. S. Herman

  2. Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, 55108, St. Paul, (Minnesota), USA

    C. A. Lessman & W. S. Herman

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We thank Paul Cherubini for supplying California Monarchs, Dr L.I. Gilbert for his helpful suggestions, Jeanne Whitaker for secretarial assistance, and Henry Lessman for aid in insect culture.

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Lessman, C.A., Herman, W.S. Flight enhances juvenile hormone inactivation inDanaus plexippus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Danaidae). Experientia 37, 599–601 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01990072

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