Science. 1989 Jan 13;243(4888):210-2. doi: 10.1126/science.243.4888.210.
Juvenile hormone has been implicated in the mediation of several reproduction-related events in adult insects, but had previously been found to play no role in the regulation of sex pheromone production and release behavior ("calling") in moths. In females of the true armyworm moth, Pseudaletia unipuncta, juvenile hormone is shown to be essential to the initiation of both calling behavior and pheromone production. Females without corpora allata, the source of juvenile hormone, do not call and do not produce pheromone, but injection of juvenile hormone into allatectomized females restored these activities. The armyworm's control system has likely evolved in response to the adults' migratory behavior which may necessitate that mating be restricted to the period following migration.
保幼激素已被牵涉到成年昆虫的几种与繁殖相关的事件的调节中，但先前发现它在调节鳞翅目昆虫的性信息素的产生和释放行为（“鸣叫”）中不起作用。在粘虫的雌性个体中，保幼激素对于鸣叫行为和信息素产生的启动都是必需的。没有咽侧体（保幼激素的来源）的雌性个体不鸣叫也不产生信息素，但向去咽侧体的雌性个体注射保幼激素可以恢复这些活动。这种鳞翅目昆虫的控制系统可能是为了适应成虫的迁徙行为而进化的，这种迁徙行为可能需要将交配限制在迁徙之后的时期内。
