Crustacean cardioactive peptide activates pupal ecdysial behavior in the 28-spotted larger potato ladybird
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During larval development, pupation, and adult eclosion, holometabolous insects must shed the old exoskeleton and expand, harden, and pigment the newly formed cuticle in a process termed ecdysis. Although ecdysis is regulated by multiple neuropeptides, the spe... ...