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Ecdysteroids in vitro promote differentiation in the accessory glands of male mealworm beetles

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Physiological peak doses of 20-hydroxyecdysone were added to organ cultures of young pupal accessory glands of maleTenebrio molitor. During subsequent culture in vitro or in vivo, the glands accumulated adult-specific antigens. Control organ cultures showed no such antigen accumulation. In this system, ecdysteroid controls not only cell cycles but also differentiation.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Vermont, 05405, Burlington, Vermont, USA

    K. A. Grimnes & G. M. Happ

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21 October 1986

This research was supported in part by a National Institutes of Health Research Service Award F32 AM7515 (KAG) and NIH grants GM26140 and AI15662 (GMH). We thank Toshinobu Yaginuma for help in developing the transplantation technique.

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Grimnes, K.A., Happ, G.M. Ecdysteroids in vitro promote differentiation in the accessory glands of male mealworm beetles. Experientia 43, 906–907 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01951661

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