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Science 15 August 1980:
Vol. 209. no. 4458, pp. 819 - 821
DOI: 10.1126/science.209.4458.819
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Induction of Follicle Separation in the Mosquito by Physiological Amounts of Ecdysterone

ELIZABETH F. BECKEMEYER 1 and ARDEN O. LEA 1

1 Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602

Physiological quantities of the molting hormone, ecdysterone, injected into female Aedes aegypti prematurely induced separation of incipient follicles in the ovarioles, an event that normally occurs only in blood-fed females. It was possible to stimulate this morphological event with physiological amounts of hormone by mimicking, with two injections, the timing of normal increases in endogenous hormone of blood-fed females.

Submitted on January 18, 1980
Revised on March 13, 1980


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