Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):R84-R86. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.026.
Juvenile hormone is best known for its role in maintaining juvenile-stage insects in their immature states during postembryonic development. A new study finds an unexpected role for this signaling lipid in guiding primordial germ cell migration during embryogenesis - possibly an ancestral function of isoprenoid signaling molecules.
保幼激素在胚胎后期发育过程中维持幼期昆虫的未成熟状态方面发挥着重要作用,这一点最为人所熟知。一项新的研究发现,这种信号脂质在指导胚胎发生过程中的原始生殖细胞迁移方面具有意想不到的作用——这可能是异戊烯信号分子的一个祖先功能。