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hydroxyecdysone

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  • noun organic chemistry A sterol (a ecdysteroid hormone) that controls moulting and metamorphosis of arthropods

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  • They do not interfere directly with chitin synthesis but mimic the invertebrate moulting hormone, 20 hydroxyecdysone

    Chapter 7 1994

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