Understanding molt control switches: Transcriptomic and expression analysis of the genes involved in ecdysteroidogenesis and cholesterol uptake pathways in the Y-organ of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

• Elena Legrand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-2220

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• Tsvetan Bachvaroff,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Tracey B. Schock,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chemical Sciences Division, Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• J. Sook Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chung@umces.edu

  Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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