ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF VITELLOGENESIS IN DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER - EFFECTS OF BRAIN AND CORPUS-ALLATUM
ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF VITELLOGENESIS IN DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER - EFFECTS OF BRAIN AND CORPUS-ALLATUM
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1402020309
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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通讯作者:
POSTLETHWAIT, JH
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作者:
HANDLER, AM;POSTLETHWAIT, JH
The endocrine control of yolk deposition in D. melanogaster was studied by ligation and transplantation techniques. Endocrine events associated with the initiation of vitellogenesis were synchronized with eclosion rather than the completion of adult development. Decapitation experiments showed that a cephalic event occurring at about the time of eclosion was necessary for each animal to initiate vitellogenesis. The morphogenetic effect of the head could be replaced by a juvenile hormone analog (JHA). In addition to the cephalic event, a thoracic factor was required for each follicle to initiate vitellogenesis, since preparation of isolated abdomens before 16 h after eclosion prevented vitellogenesis. In abdomens isolated after this time, no early vitellogenic stages were formed. The suppression of vitellogenesis in isolated abdomens was reversed by implanting corpora allata or by treating these preparations with JHA, but not by implanting corpora cardiaca. Ovaries artificially induced to mature by treating isolated abdomens with JHA still displayed the normal complement of ovarian proteins after electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels. A circadian clock triggered vitellogenesis via a cephalic signal at eclosion, which in turn triggered events in the thorax or abdomen. The cephalic signal could be superseded by JH whose presence was necessary for each follicle to become vitellogenic.