Université de Fribourg

Aminergic signaling controls ovarian dormancy in drosophila

Andreatta, Gabriele ; Kyriacou, Charalambos P. ; Flatt, Thomas ; Costa, Rodolfo

In: Scientific Reports, 2018, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 2030

In response to adverse environmental conditions many organisms from nematodes to mammals deploy a dormancy strategy, causing states of developmental or reproductive arrest that enhance somatic maintenance and survival ability at the expense of growth or reproduction. Dormancy regulation has been studied in C. elegans and in several insects, but how neurosensory mechanisms act to relay ...