Chinmo function in cockroaches provides new insights into the regulation and evolution of insect metamorphosis
Jorge Escudero; Judit Gonzalvo; Maria-Dolors Piulachs; Xavier Bellés · 2025 · PLoS Genetics
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Abstract
Insect metamorphosis occurs in two main forms, hemimetaboly (simple) and holometaboly (complete), both regulated by hormonal and genetic pathways involving the transcription factors Krüppel homolog 1 (Kr-h1), Broad-Complex (BR-C), and Ecdysone-induced protein 93F (E93). The BTB-zinc finger protein Chronologically inappropriate morphogenesis (Chinmo), recently identified in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, an holometabolan, as a larval state maintainer, was studied here in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, an hemimetabolan. We also examined another BTB transcription factor, Abrup
Abstract by Jorge Escudero; Judit Gonzalvo; Maria-Dolors Piulachs; Xavier Bellés, PLoS Genetics (2025) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011993