Elimination of protein-food ingested into the crop, and failure of ovarian development in female mosquitoes, Culex pipiens pollens. |
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| Authors: | KEIKICHI UCHIDA KATSUHIKO SUZUKI |
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| Affiliation: | Seminar of Biology, Premedical Course, and Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Juntendo University, Japan |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT. 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. |
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| Keywords: | Mosquito Culex pipiens ovary development digestion protein elimination sugar absorption feeding |
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