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Miniature pupae and moths of the silkworm.
Insect juvenile hormones (JHs) prevent precocious metamorphosis and allow the larva to undergo multiple rounds of larval molts. The silkworm dimolting (mod) mutant undergoes precocious metamorphosis with fewer larval—larval molts. The work by Daimon et al. demonstrates that mod is a JH-deficient mutant carrying the null mutation in CYP15C1, a JH biosynthetic cytochrome P450 gene. This image shows cocoons and moths of normal (left) and mod (right) individuals.
Image Credit: Takaaki Daimon (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan).
Citation: (2012) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 8(3) March 2012. PLoS Genet 8(3): ev08.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v08.i03
Published: March 29, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Daimon. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Insect juvenile hormones (JHs) prevent precocious metamorphosis and allow the larva to undergo multiple rounds of larval molts. The silkworm dimolting (mod) mutant undergoes precocious metamorphosis with fewer larval—larval molts. The work by Daimon et al. demonstrates that mod is a JH-deficient mutant carrying the null mutation in CYP15C1, a JH biosynthetic cytochrome P450 gene. This image shows cocoons and moths of normal (left) and mod (right) individuals.
Image Credit: Takaaki Daimon (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan).