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I V Chudakova

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Effect of benserazid and 6-hydroxydopamine on the development of the last larval instar of the house cricket, Acheta domestica L.

The effect of benserazid and 6-OHDA on the duration of the last larval instar and development of wings with intact corpora allata and following allatectomy on Acheta domestica L. was studied. 6-OHDA failed to alter the duration of the last larval instar in the nymphs with intact corpora allata but prolonged it in the allatectomized crickets. Introduction of 6-OHDA in the second phase of the last larval instar caused a deformation of the wings both in allatectomized and intact crickets. Injection of benserazid to the nymphs of the last larval instar prolonged the duration of this phase only in the presence of the corpora allata. The effect of benserazid can be connected to elimination of central inhibition of the corpora allata involving dopaminergic neurons of the brain.

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Effect of benserazid and allatectomy on the development and structure of the ovariole in the house cricket, Acheta domestica L.

Light and electron microscopic investigations were carried out on the fourth day imago of the house cricket, Acheta domestica L. treated with benserazid, or allatectomized. Introduction of benserazid (daily on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of imaginal life in 0.1 mg/g) failed to influence the development of the oocytes. However, benserazid in the concentration of 0.2 mg/g inhibited the growth of the terminal oocytes, while in 0.6 mg/g it completely blocked the development of terminal oocytes and vitellogenesis. The effect of benserazid proved to be reversible. Application of juvenile hormone analogue (ZR-515) prevented the effect of benserazid on the gonads of the crickets. Ultrastructural damages of the oocytes and follicular epithelium were the same in case of benserazid treatment and allatectomy, although the changes were more expressed in the latter case. The benserazid effect was found to be indirect, caused by damage to the interaction between the aminergic and peptidergic systems of the brain.

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The effect of analogs of juvenile hormone on the morphogenesis of the flight apparatus of the house cricket.

The morphogenetic action of juvenile hormone (JH) on the development of the flight apparatus was studied on the house cricket (Acheta domestica L.). Simulation of an excess of JH, created by treatment of nymphs of the last instar with analogs of JH, led to the formation of adultoids with various degrees of expression of the imaginal characteristics in the structure of the elytrons and wings. An analysis of the state of the wings, wing base, and wing muscles in the adultoids shows that the flight apparatus develops as an integral functioning system, and not as a result of independent imagination of its individual constituents. The great importance of inversion of the wings was demonstrated: imaginal characteristics absent before inversion were expressed to one degree or another in all parts of the flight apparatus after inversions. The imaginization of the wing musculature is associated primarily with the degree of formation of the wing base, determining the degree of mobility of the wings. It was proposed that the morphogenetic action of JH and its analogs be evaluated on the basis not so much of the length of the wings as the degree of formation of the flight apparatus, which is most simply judged according to the mobility of the wings. It was proposed that the morphogenetic action of JH and its analogs be evaluated on the basis not so much of the length of the wings as the degree of formation of the flight apparatus, which is most simply judged according to the mobility of the wings and their position at rest.

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[The morphofunctional condition of the basic organ systems, life span and fecundity of the domestic cricket, Acheta domestica, during normal imaginal development and following allatectomy].

3 main periods of imaginal development: juvenility, reproduction, ageing, were established in Acheta domestica and characterized by morphological and functional features of some organs (integument, wings, fat body, wing muscles, ovaries, and body proportions). Allatectomized crickets remain in the first period up till the day of death; this allowed to suggest that the hormone of corpora allata in imago controls the normal correlated development of different organs and tissues and ensures the transition to subsequent periods of imaginal ontogenesis. In allatectomized crickets of both the sexes, the duration of imaginal life is markedly longer and the fecundity of females is much lower. It is suggested that the hormone of corpora allata controls the life span and the fecundity independently.

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