Leevers S J
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, 91 Riding House Street, W1W 7BS, London, UK.
Curr Biol. 2001 Mar 20;11(6):R209-12. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00107-5.
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.