The biosynthesis of ecdysones in the blowfly Calliphora stygia

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Abstract
25-Deoxyecdysone (IV) is metabolised in Calliphora stygia to ponasterone A (VI) and inokosterone (V) as well as crustecdysone (I), and is thus unlikely to be a major natural precursor of crustecdysone in this insect.