Induction of Follicle Separation in the Mosquito by Physiological Amounts of Ecdysterone

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 1980 Aug 15

PMID 17753310

Citations 10

Authors

E F Beckemeyer

A O Lea

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Abstract

Physiological quantities of the molting hormone, ecdysterone, injected into female Aedes aegypti prematurely induced separation of incipient follicles in the ovarioles, an event that normally occurs only in blood-fed females. It was possible to stimulate this morphological event with physiological amounts of hormone by mimicking, with two injections, the timing of normal increases in endogenous hormone of blood-fed females.

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