20-hydroxyecdysone promotes brain development via upregulating MMP2 expression during metamorphosis in Helicoverpa armigera

• Can Tian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Tian, Pei-Yao Feng, Lin Wang

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

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Pei-Yao Feng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Tian, Pei-Yao Feng, Lin Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Lin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Tian, Pei-Yao Feng, Lin Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Tian-Wen Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Yan-Xue Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Xiao-Fan Zhao

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

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

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Development and Regeneration, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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

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