Sixty-four briefictionsns that require the reader to settle for not knowing exactly what is going on when tourists, for example, are tormented with snacks that induce "chemical mirth".
Early in the third (final) larval instar (L3), a small peak of the steroid hormone ecdysone has been proposed to induce a developmental transition known as critical weight (Mirth and Riddiford, 2007; Mirth and Shingleton, 2012).
The unposed or social smile, however, is involuntary and is induced by joy or mirth.
This has led authors to propose that the small pulse of ecdysone early in the L3 (Warren et al., 2006) is nutrition-sensitive and induces critical weight in Drosophila (Mirth and Riddiford, 2007; Koyama et al., 2013; Mirth et al., 2014).
Of all the changes it was, perhaps, Kolo Touré's name that induced the most trepidation (or mirth, depending on who you support).
Activation of the fusiform gyrus and anterior temporal region caused by electrical stimulation induced laughter accompanied by a feeling of mirth (i.e., positive emotion; Arroyo et al. [1993]).
Even though starvation causes a delay in development before attaining critical weight, once they reach critical weight, starvation induces moderate acceleration in the time to metamorphosis (Mirth et al., 2005; Stieper et al., 2008).
All this is cause for mirth.
Supposedly chaste new uniforms for Turkish Airlines THYY) cabin attendants have triggered mirth and horror in the cyberworld.
Increasing IIS/TOR activity in the PGs induces precocious critical weight and reducing its activity in the PGs prolongs this transition (Caldwell et al., 2005; Colombani et al., 2005; Mirth et al., 2005; Layalle et al., 2008).
Previous studies have shown that activating IIS/TOR signaling in the PGs induces early critical weight transitions, precocious ecdysone biosynthesis at wandering, and precocious metamorphosis (Caldwell et al., 2005; Colombani et al., 2005; Mirth et al., 2005; Layalle et al., 2008).
