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Earn your wings

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  • Nathalie Le Bot

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Insect double identity is insulin-linked Some types of insect can exist in two forms, both as long-winged morphs that can move from habitat to habitat to follow resources, and as short-winged flightless morphs with high fertility, but the molecular details of this switch have remained unclear. One species that leads this double life is the migratory brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, a serious pest in rice-growing regions of Asia. Chuan-Xi Zhang and colleagues show that long-wing versus short-wing development in N. lugens is controlled through the opposing effects of two insulin receptors, InR1 and InR2, on the activity of the forkhead transcription factor Foxo.

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  • Nathalie Le Bot, 2015. "Earn your wings," Nature, Nature, vol. 519(7544), pages 420-420, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:519:y:2015:i:7544:d:10.1038_519420a
    DOI: 10.1038/519420a
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