Specific insulin-like peptide regulates how beetle ‘weapons’ grow, revealing how larval nutrition leads to differently sized mandibles in broad-horned flour beetles. A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University and coworkers have discovered that a specific insulin-like peptide called ILP2 regulates the size of “weapons” in Gnatocerus cornutus beetles in different nutritional...
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