C.Metallifer

Oak

Goliathus
I hope to successfully breed these guys this year
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i purchased a pair last year, bred them, and now the larva became this.
I thought you might be interested in THIS.

Cheers

P.S. - There's a correction to that paper which hasn't been incorporated, yet:

"Expression of Cmdsx in mandibles of large males was at most 1.3 times that of mandibles in small males (during Stage 2; Fig. 3C)"

This should be corrected to

"Expression of Cmdsx in mandibles of large males was at most 1.3 times that of mandibles in small males (during Stage 4; Fig. 3C)"
 
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I thought you might be interested in THIS.

Cheers

P.S. - There's a correction to that paper which hasn't been incorporated, yet:

"Expression of Cmdsx in mandibles of large males was at most 1.3 times that of mandibles in small males (during Stage 2; Fig. 3C)"

This should be corrected to

"Expression of Cmdsx in mandibles of large males was at most 1.3 times that of mandibles in small males (during Stage 4; Fig. 3C)"
thanks for the link! very interesting to read.

 
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Bill,

There is another paper by the same team that I was looking at a few months ago, while researching chemical ways to grow majors.

The title of the paper is Juvenile hormone regulates extreme mandible growth in male stag beetles. The experiment uses C. Metallifer beetles as well.

Juvenile hormone has been used as well to make silk moths go into an L4s and be much larger.

Fenoxycarb is (JGH) they show the amounts they use and pictures of the treated and untreated pupae and beetles.

 
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Bill,

There is another paper by the same team that I was looking at a few months ago, while researching chemical ways to grow majors.

The title of the paper is Juvenile hormone regulates extreme mandible growth in male stag beetles. The experiment uses C. Metallifer beetles as well.

Juvenile hormone has been used as well to make silk moths go into an L4s and be much larger.

Fenoxycarb is (JGH) they show the amounts they use and pictures of the treated and untreated pupae and beetles.
Cool!!! Thanks for the heads up. I'll root around the net for it.

Cheers

 
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