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Elimination of protein‐food ingested into the crop, and failure of ovarian development in female mosquitoes, Culex pipiens pollens.
Author(s) -
UCHIDA KEIKICHI,
SUZUKI KATSUHIKO
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
physiological entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-3032
pISSN - 0307-6962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1982.tb00293.x
Subject(s) - biology , culex pipiens , crop , sugar , vitellogenesis , albumin , oogenesis , meal , egg albumin , sucrose , zoology , botany , medicine , endocrinology , larva , food science , agronomy , oocyte , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , pregnancy , lactation , embryo , chemistry , chromatography
. Sugar‐free egg albumin solution was ‘force fed’ to female C.pipiens pallens Coquillett, by first stimulating their labella briefly with 1.0 M sucrose, so that they then took the protein meal into the crop. This protein‐food was nevertheless easily eliminated by the females, totally undigested, so that it failed to activate oogenesis, just as sugared albumin fails to do so also.