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. 2001 Mar 20;11(6):R209-12.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00107-5.

Growth control: invertebrate insulin surprises!

S J Leevers  1
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Growth control: invertebrate insulin surprises!

S J Leevers. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Recent work on Drosophila has provided new insights into how insulin signalling - conserved in mammals, flies and worms - regulates growth and cell division during development. Invertebrates have been found to possess more insulin-like ligands than predicted, some of which behave as receptor antagonists.

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