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Chitin Biosynthesis in Insects and Its Disruption as a Means of Pest Control

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Chitin in Nature and Technology

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The epidermis is one of the most versatile tissues seen in insects, and is capable of performing a spectacular array of functions related to growth and development.1,2 It plays a pivotal role in the moulting cycle, the sequential polymorphic changes seen in holometabolous insects and the formation of the distinct surface architecture including those of the sense organs and the epidermal glands.3,4 It has been proposed that genes responsible for the larval, pupal and adult characteristics are successively derepressed during metamorphosis to permit the manifestation of these three distinct morphologies.5 At the same time, the two hormones, 20-hydroxy ecdysone and juvenile hormone, have been shown to act at the genetic level in the epidermis regulating morphogenesis.6,7 The different functions of the epidermis are thus genetically predetermined but hormonally sustained.

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Retnakaran, A. (1986). Chitin Biosynthesis in Insects and Its Disruption as a Means of Pest Control. In: Muzzarelli, R., Jeuniaux, C., Gooday, G.W. (eds) Chitin in Nature and Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2167-5_19

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