The effect of larval nutrition on egg production in Rhodnius prolixus |
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Authors: | J.W. Patterson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England |
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Abstract: | Rhodnius prolixus adults which had fed to repletion at each larval instar were frequently autogenous, while those allowed to take only partial blood meals at the 3rd, 4th and 5th larval instars were always anautogenous.Bugs fed to repletion at each larval instar had large abdominal fat bodies throughout adult life. In such bugs, the quantity of blood associated with the production of one egg was small and constant during the course of several blood meals.Bugs fed partial blood meals as larvae had small abdominal fat bodies following ecdysis to the adult; the quantity of blood associated with the production of one egg was large following the first adult feed because some of the blood meal was used to increase the size of the abdominal fat bodies. |
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Keywords: | autogeny larval nutrition egg production |
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