Any of a number of hormones regulating larval development in insects and inhibiting metamorphosis.
Example sentencesExamples
- Methoprene is a pesticide that acts as a juvenile hormone agonist.
- The mode of action of methoprene is to directly interfere with normal hormone function by mimicking the insect juvenile hormone.
- With insufficient juvenile hormone, horn growth never starts.
- Oogenesis in Drosophila is regulated by the steroid hormone ecdysone and the sesquiterpenoid juvenile hormone.
- Methyl farnesoate is a sesquiterpene that is related to the insect juvenile hormone.