title: Body-size control: how an insect knows it has grown enough.
abstract: Insulin signaling controls organ growth and final body size in insects. Recent results have begun to clarify how insulin signaling drives organ growth to match nutrient levels, but have not yet elucidated how insulin signaling controls final body size.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. dstern@Princeton.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stern
mesh_terms: D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D001824:Body Constitution / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D007301:Insect Hormones / Q000502:physiology; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D007301:Insect Hormones; D007328:Insulin