scholarly journals Loss of Ice-Nucleating Activity and Avoidance of Inoculative Freezing with Puparium Formation Induced by 20-Hydroxyecdysone in Eurosta solidaginis(Diptera:Tephritidae)

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimio SHIMADA ◽  
Misako NISHINO ◽  
John G. BAUST
1953 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
pp. 294-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Judd

Studies of the goldenrod gall caused by Eurosta solidaginis Fitch have been made by various authors who reared insects from the galls in North America, e.g. Hughes (1934), Milne (1940) and Ping (1915). Snyder (1898) described the emergence of an adult fly from a gall in Illinois. In Canada, insects have been reared from galls collected in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories by Brodie (1892), in Quebec by Fyles (1894) and in Ontario by Harrington (1895). An opportunity has been taken recently to examine specimens reared by Dr. G. Beall from galls collected at Chatham, Ontario in 1930 and to rear insects from galls in the vicinity of London, Ontario.


Cryobiology ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. Bale ◽  
T.N. Hansen ◽  
M. Nishino ◽  
J.G. Baust

1955 ◽  
Vol s3-96 (34) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
L. S. WOLFE

The penetration and reduction of ammoniacal silver nitrate solution in the epicuticle of the larva of Calliphora was studied. The epicuticle of the third instar larva is more permeable over the muscle insertions and cuticular sense organs. This finding is related to their development at the previous moult. A surface layer of orientated wax is not present. Proteinaceous and fatty materials from the feeding medium modify the properties of the cuticle surface. Chloroformmethanol extracts a soft light brown acidic lipide from the protein of the epicuticle after contaminants from the medium are removed. The water loss from larvae and puparia of different ages and after various treatments was studied. Young puparia recover from abrasion but larvae do not. An hypothesis that waxy substances are liberated on to the surface of the puparium during hardening and darkening of the cuticle is presented and discussed. The pore canals penetrate the endocuticle until they are cut off from the epidermis by the development of the prepupal cuticle just after the puparial contraction. An inner endocuticle in which pore canals were absent was not found. The structure of the pore canals as shown by phase contrast examination is discussed. The pore canals are three times more concentrated in the lateral regions than in the dorsal or ventral regions. The oenocytes go through a secretory cycle during puparium formation similar to that occurring before moulting of the larva.


1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisaaki Tsumuki ◽  
Robert R. Rojas ◽  
Kenneth B. Storey ◽  
John G. Baust

Development ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.V. Orenic ◽  
L.I. Held ◽  
S.W. Paddock ◽  
S.B. Carroll

The spatial organization of Drosophila melanogaster epidermal structures in embryos and adults constitutes a classic model system for understanding how the two dimensional arrangement of particular cell types is generated. For example, the legs of the Drosophila melanogaster adult are covered with bristles, which in most segments are arranged in longitudinal rows. Here we elucidate the key roles of two regulatory genes, hairy and achaete, in setting up this periodic bristle pattern. We show that achaete is expressed during pupal leg development in a dynamic pattern which changes, by approximately 6 hours after puparium formation, into narrow longitudinal stripes of 3–4 cells in width, each of which represents a field of cells (proneural field) from which bristle precursor cells are selected. This pattern of gene expression foreshadows the adult bristle pattern and is established in part through the function of the hairy gene, which also functions in patterning other adult sense organs. In pupal legs, hairy is expressed in four longitudinal stripes, located between every other pair of achaete stripes. We show that in the absence of hairy function achaete expression expands into the interstripe regions that normally express hairy, fusing the two achaete stripes and resulting in extra-wide stripes of achaete expression. This misexpression of achaete, in turn, alters the fields of potential bristle precursor cells which leads to the misalignment of bristle rows in the adult. This function of hairy in patterning achaete expression is distinct from that in the wing in which hairy suppresses late expression of achaete but has no effect on the initial patterning of achaete expression. Thus, the leg bristle pattern is apparently regulated at two levels: a global regulation of the hairy and achaete expression patterns which partitions the leg epidermis into striped zones (this study) and a local regulation (inferred from other studies on the selection of neural precursor cells) that involves refinement steps which may control the alignment and spacing of bristle cells within these zones.


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