Partial localization of a brain factor inhibiting egg production in the blood-feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus

Neural inhibition of the corpus allatum

Neural inhibition of the corpus allatum in the last larval instar differs from that in adults in the blood-feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus

✍ R. Gary Chiang 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB 👁 1 views

An active corpus allatum (CA) in the blood feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus, releases a substance that inhibits metamorphosis in larvae, and activates egg production in adults. In adults, transecting the nervus corporis cardiacum II's (NCCII), which are attached posteriorly to each protocerebral lo