OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT INDUCED IN DECAPITATED FEMALE CULEX-PIPIENS PALLENS MOSQUITOS BY INFUSION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL QUANTITIES OF 20-HYDROXYECDYSONE TOGETHER WITH AMINO-ACIDS
K. Uchida et al., OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT INDUCED IN DECAPITATED FEMALE CULEX-PIPIENS PALLENS MOSQUITOS BY INFUSION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL QUANTITIES OF 20-HYDROXYECDYSONE TOGETHER WITH AMINO-ACIDS, Journal of insect physiology, 44(5-6), 1998, pp. 525-528
Infusion of 20-hydroxyecdysone into the hemocoel of unfed decapitated
female Culex pipiens pallens mosquitoes, at a very low rate of 500-200
0 pg per day, often stimulated oogenesis of this species, when the hor
mone was infused together with amino acids. The hormone alone or amino
acids alone showed no such stimulatory effect. Previous reports that
using an abdomen ligated immediately after a blood meal for hormone in
jection reduced the quantity of 20-hydroxyecdysone needed to activate
unfed female Aedes aegypti by a few thousand times, are therefore due
mainly to a sufficient supply of amino acids from the midgut in the is
olated abdomen. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.