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| Franz Römer, Ilona Eisenbeis | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| DNA Content and Synthesis in Several Tissues and Variation of Moulting Hormone-Level in Gryllus bimaculatus DEG (Ensifera, Insecta)  | | | | Abstract
| The mode of growth o f several tissues in Gryllus bimaculatus was investigated during postembryonic development by cytophotometric methods. In contrast to the situation in holo-metabolous insects, the tissues growing by endomitosis reach only moderate levels of polyploidy. In this case the growth o f tissues is achieved by mitotic divisions o f small cells with subsequent polyploidization. The time courses of D NA synthesis were measured within the 3rd and, for comparison, the 8th larval instar by incorporation o f labelled thymidine followed by autoradiography. Hemocytes, cells of the regeneration crypts of the midgut, gonads and nervous tissue showed a continuous incorporation rate; by contrast, DNA synthesis in other tissues was confined to a given time within the moulting cycle. The changes in moulting hormone titre o f the 3rd larval instar were investigated. The quantities of ecdysone and 20-C)H-ecdysone were estimated by radioimmunoassay, and the hormones were identified by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The titre changes in time with at least 2 distinct maxima. The DNA synthesis periods are correlated with the hormone peaks, that o f epidermis and tracheae with the first peak, and that of pylorus, ileum, rectum, Malpighian tubules and fat body with the second. DNA synthesis in prothoracic glands and oenocytes exhibits a time course that is the inverse of the hormone-secretion time course. The question whether moulting hormones have an influence on D NA synthesis is discussed. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 38c, 112 (1983); received June 28/September 16 1982 | | | |
Published
| 1983 | | | |
Keywords
| Polyploidy Levels, DNA Synthesis Development, Ecdysteroids, Gryllus bimaculatus | | | |
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