Juvenile hormone titers in the hemolymph during late larval development of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.).
Juvenile hormone titers in the hemolymph during late larval development of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.).
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烟草天蛾 Manduca sexta (L.) 幼虫发育晚期血淋巴中保幼激素滴度。
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1975
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L. Riddiford
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M. J. Fain;L. Riddiford
The juvenile hormone (JH) , as with many other developmental hormones in insects, must reach its target tissues by way of the hemolymph. Thus, the hemolymph concentration bears an important relation to effects of JH ( see de Wilde, de Kort and de Loof, 1971 ) , although tissue retention of hormone or of “?�covert effectsâ€of hormone may be of significance as well (e.g., Ohtaki, Milk man, and Williams, 1968 ; Nijhout, 1975). It is generally accepted that the JH titer is “?�high†during most of premetamorphic development, yet the effects of JH are made manifest only at discrete times during this development—when ecdysone induces a molt. Ligation studies of larvae of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta suggest that in a larval molt, the effects of JH on epidermal commitment occur simultaneously with initiation of the molting process by ecdysone (Truman, 1972 ; Truman and Riddiford, 1974) . Observations in these studies and in others (Wigglesworth, 1934 ; Fukuda, 1944) suggest indirectly that in premetamorphic molts the JH titer, in fact, may be very low at the time of prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) release, just prior to the critical period for ecdysone secretion. Other reports suggest that substantial titers of ecdysone and of JH do not occur simultaneously even in a larval molt (Patel and Madhavan, 1969). Much has been deduced about JH titers from indirect measurements of cyto logical, size, or activity changes in the corpora allata (CA) (see Doane, 1973), but there are difficulties with such methods (Williams, 1961; Johnson and Hill, 1973a) and direct determination of hemolymph titers is desirable. The tobacco horn worm is especially suited for such an investigation of hemolymph titers of JH during larval development. The “?�gating†of PTTH release by photoperiod (Tru nian, 1972) allows one to select developmentally synchronous groups of animals from which to obtain hemolymph for analysis. Titers observed can be correlated precisely with developmental events relative to the release of PTTH and ecdysone. Finally, the JH content of hemolymph samples can be analyzed in a bioassay system using assay animals of the sanie species and stage as those which provided the hemolymph. This report describes the determination of JH titers in heniolymph during the fourth and fifth instars of wild-type Manduca larvae, by means of a sensitive and quantitative JH bioassay utilizing larvae of the black mutant (Safranek and Riddi ford, 1975).