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Two known factors are concerned in the control of growth in Rhodnius: a ‘moulting hormone’ which initiates cell division and subsequent eedysis, and an ‘inhibitory hormone’, secreted in the first four nymphal stages, which prevents the development of imaginal characters. The inhibitory hormone is secreted by the corpus allatum2.
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WIGGLESWORTH, V. Source of the Moulting Hormone in Rhodnius (Hemiptera). Nature 144, 753 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144753a0
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