The steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone binds to dopamine receptor to repress lepidopteran insect feeding and promote pupation

Xin-Le Kang; Jun-Ying Zhang; Di Wang; Yu-Meng Zhao; Xiao-Lin Han; Jin-Xing Wang; Xiao-Fan Zhao

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008331

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The steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone binds to dopamine receptor to repress lepidopteran insect feeding and promote pupation

Xin-Le Kang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Jun-Ying Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Di Wang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Yu-Meng Zhao,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Xiao-Lin Han,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Jin-Xing Wang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Xiao-Fan Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: xfzhao@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliation Shandong provincial key laboratory of animal cells and developmental biology, School of life science, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-4730

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The steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone binds to dopamine receptor to repress lepidopteran insect feeding and promote pupation

Xin-Le Kang,
Jun-Ying Zhang,
Di Wang,
Yu-Meng Zhao,
Xiao-Lin Han,
Jin-Xing Wang,
Xiao-Fan Zhao

Published: August 14, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008331

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