Morphological effects of juvenile hormone mimics on embryonic development in the bug,Pyrrhocoris apterus

1977 ◽  
Vol 181 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenie C. Enslee ◽  
Lynn M. Riddiford
Keyword(s):  
Embryonic Development ◽  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Pyrrhocoris Apterus ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Mimics

Natural and synthetic materials with insect hormone activity

Development ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
P. Masner ◽  
K. Sláma ◽  
V. Landa
Keyword(s):  
Embryonic Development ◽  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Abnormal Development ◽  
Hormone Activity ◽  
Pyrrhocoris Apterus ◽  
Synthetic Materials ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Analogues ◽  
Insect Metamorphosis ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Activity ◽  
Imaginal Differentiation

The juvenile hormone of insects is known to inhibit the process of insect metamorphosis. It is also known to stimulate ovarian growth in adult females of some species. It has been found recently that some substances with juvenile hormone activity also influence embryonic development. In the bug Pyrrhocoris apterus such substances, which prevent imaginal differentiation in metamorphosis, also affect the differentiation process of embryos at a certain stage of egg development (Sláma & Williams, 1966). This has been confirmed with other juvenile hormone analogues on embryonic development of silkworm eggs (Riddiford & Williams, 1967) and grasshoppers (Novák, 1967). According to the above observations eggs treated with the substances show abnormal development of the embryos, which may pass successfully through the early stages of embryogenesis but are unable to complete differentiation. Usually the embryos do not develop beyond the stage of blastokinesis and die within the egg shells.

Insect juvenile hormone mimics: A structural basis for gonadotropic activity in a cockroach and a moth

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sroka ◽  
Robert H. Barth ◽  
Lawrence I. Gilbert ◽  
Gerardus B. Staal
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Gonadotropic Activity ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Mimics

Effects of juvenile hormone mimics on the codling moth Cydia Pomonella (L.) (Lep., Olethreutidae)

1973 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Gelbič ◽  
F. Sehnal
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Cydia Pomonella ◽  
Codling Moth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Analogues ◽  
Juvenile Hormone Mimics

AbstractLaboratory experiments with juvenile hormone analogues on Cydia pomonella (L.) showed that Cecropia C17 juvenile hormone (methyl 10,ll-epoxy-3,7,ll-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoate) was the most active of the 28 compounds tested. When applied to four-hour-old eggs at 0.1 μg/egg, the hormone caused 100% failure in embryogenesis, while the other compounds were at least five times less effective. Depending on the time since ecdysis and the dose, juvenile hormone mimics applied to last-instar larvae resulted in a wide range of intermediate forms. Against three-day-old last-instar larvae, the Cecropia C17 hormone gave 100% inhibition of development at a dose of 1 μg/larva, while three other compounds (methyl 10,11-epoxy-3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoate, ethyl 11-chloro-3,7,11-trimethyl-2-dodecenoate and ethyl 3,7,11-tri-methyl-2,4-dodecadienoate) gave the same effect at 2–5 μg/larva. Against newly emerged adults, the last two compounds at 10–50 μg/insect reduced fecundity and fertility to 0–81% and 0–50%, respectively, of their normal levels.

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