Steroid hormones in Drosophila: how ecdysone coordinates developmental signalling with cell growth and division

Leonie Quinn; Nicola Cranna; Jue Er Amanda Lee; Naomi Mitchell; Jane Lin; Ross Hannan

doi:10.5772/27927

Steroid hormones in Drosophila: how ecdysone coordinates developmental signalling with cell growth and division

Leonie Quinn, Nicola Cranna, Jue Er Amanda Lee, Naomi Mitchell, Jane Lin, Ross Hannan

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Ecdysone is the major steroid hormone in all holometabolous insects responsible for driving the metamorphosis of larval tissues into adult structures. During metamorphosis, ecdysone is essential for upregulating the genes required to control apoptosis and differentiation, essential processes for removal of larval structures which have become obsolete and for tissue remodelling. In addition, ecdysone directs cell growth and division in many tissues throughout the larval to pupal transition. This chapter will discuss the many diverse mechanisms reported for connecting the ecdysone pulse to the developmentally regulated cell growth and cycle progression required for tissue growth and for insects to reach their target body size.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Steroids - Basic Science
Editors	Hassan Abduljabbar
Place of Publication	Rijeka, Croatia
Publisher	InTech
Pages	141-168
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9789533078663
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5772/27927
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Steroid hormones in Drosophila: how ecdysone coordinates developmental signalling with cell growth and division. / Quinn, Leonie; Cranna, Nicola; Lee, Jue Er Amanda et al.
Steroids - Basic Science. ed. / Hassan Abduljabbar. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, 2012. p. 141-168.

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