Role of the juvenile hormone on the differentiation of specialized integumental areas, “fenestrae”, in Schistocerca gregaria (Acrididae: Orthoptera)

• Published in: Journal of insect physiology Vol. 32; no. 11; pp. 941,949 - 947,953
• Main Authors: Sbrenna, Giovanni, Micciarelli-Sbrenna, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 1986; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acrididae; Allatectomy; Biochemistry. Physiology. Immunology; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Insecta; Invertebrates; Physiology. Development; precocious morphogenesis; Schistocerca gregaria; Slifer's patches; specialized integumental pattern; specialized integumental pattern; precocious morphogenesis; Schistocerca gregaria; Allatectomy; Slifer's patches; Morphogenesis; Transmission electron microscopy; Arthropoda; Insecta; Orthoptera; Epidermis; Invertebrata; Cell differentiation; Juvenile hormone

“Fenestrae” or “Slifer's patches” are highly permeable integumentary areas of locusts, segmentally arranged in the adult abdominal terga of males and females. In S. gregaria they arise, after being newly programmed, from epidermal cells, and the developmental pattern proceeds during the last tw...