The Juvenile Hormones

Introductory Lecture.- Juvenile Hormone....In Retrospect and in Prospect.- I. Chemistry of the Juvenile Hormones and Juvenile Hormone Analogs.- Summary of Session I.- On the Identity of the Juvenile Hormone in Insects.- Structure Activity Relationships in Some Juvenile Hormone Analogs.- Phenylethers as Insect Growth Regulators: Laboratory and Field Experiments.- A Competitive Binding Protein Assay for Juvenile Hormone.- II. Biosynthesis and Metabolism of Juvenile Hormone.- Summary of Session II.- Determination of the Physiological Levels of Juvenile Hormones in Several Insects and Biosynthesis of the Carbon Skeletons of the Juvenile Hormones.- Isolation and Identification of Juvenile Hormones by Means of a Radioactive Isotope Dilution Method: Evidence for JH III in Eight Species from Four Orders.- Enzymatic Synthesis of Juvenile Hormone in Manduca sexta.- Farnesenic Acid Stimulation of Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis as an Experimental Probe in Corpus Allatum Physiology.- Continuous Monitoring of Juvenile Hormone Release by Superfused Corpora Allata of Periplaneta americana.- III. Juvenile Hormone Effects at the Cellular Level.- Summary of Session III.- Relationship Between DNA Synthesis, Juvenile Hormone, and Metamorphosis in Galleria Larvae.- Juvenile Hormone Control of Epidermal Commitment In Vivo and In Vitro.- Action of Juvenile Hormone on Imaginal Discs of the Indian Meal Moth.- Ecdysone Deficiency in Juvenile Hormone Treated Larvae of the German Cockroach, Biattella germanica (L.).- The Antagonism Between Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysone.- The Interaction of Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysone: Antagonistic, Synergistic, or Permissive?.- The Role of Juvenile Hormone in Diapause and Phase Variation in Some Lepidopterous Insects.- Action of Juvenoids on Different Groups of Insects.- IV. Juvenile Hormone Effects at the Molecular Level (Binding and Transport).- Summary of Session IV.- Interaction of Juvenile Hormone with Binding Proteins in Insect Hemolymph.- The Binding of Juvenile Hormone to Larval Epidermis: Influence of a Carrier Protein from the Hemolymph of Plodia interpunctelia.- The Binding Protein as a Modulator of Juvenile Hormone Stability and Uptake.- The Degradative Metabolism of Juvenoids by Insects.- Special Lecture.- Discovery of Insect Antiallatotropins.- V. Effects of Juvenile Hormone at the Molecular Level (Protein Synthesis).- Summary of Session V.- An Analysis of Leucine tRNAs During the Development of Tenebrio molitor.- The Effects of Juvenile Hormone on Imaginal Discs of Drosophila In Vitro: The Role of the Inhibition of Protein Synthesis.- A Genetic Approach to the Study of Juvenile Hormone Control of Vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster.- Induction of the Insect Vitellogenin In Vivo and In Vitro.- Juvenile Hormone Induced Biosynthesis of Vitellogenin in Leucophaea maderae from Large Precursor Polypeptides.- Juvenile Hormone Control of Vitellogenin Synthesis in Locusta migratoria.- Concluding Lecture.- Mechanism of Steroid Hormone Action: In Vitro Control of Gene Expression in Chick Oviduct Chromatin by Purified Steroid Receptor Complexes.- List of Participants.