INSECT HORMONES - OLIVE OIL IS NOT AN INERT VEHICLE FOR HORMONE INJECTION INTO LOCUSTS

被引:10
作者
CARLISLE, DB
ELLIS, PE
机构
[1] Anti-Locust Research Centre, College House, London, W.8, Wrights Lane
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10.1126/science.162.3860.1393
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Like other fatty oils from plants, olive and peanut oils, the most commonly used vehicles for the injection of juvenile hormone and its analogs, contain substances that show effects similar to those of this hormone. A dose of olive oil smaller than that used to dissolve a single injection of juvenile hormone will cause nuclear enlargement in the cells of the prothoracic gland of the desert locus and advance the succeeding molt.
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