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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Ovicidal Activity of Maternally Applied Ecdysteroids in the Large Milkweed Bug (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)

A. DornK. J. Buhlmann

subject

medicine.medical_specialtyanimal structuresZoologychemistry.chemical_compoundInternal medicinemedicineEcdysteroidintegumentary systemEcologybiologyLarge milkweed bugfungiEmbryogenesisHeteropteraEmbryoGeneral Medicinebiology.organism_classificationOocyteLygaeidaemedicine.anatomical_structureEndocrinologychemistryInsect Scienceembryonic structureshormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonistsEcdysone

description

Exogenous ecdysteroids (ecdysone, 20-hydroxyecdysone and makisterone A) administered to reproducing females of Oncopelus fasciatus (Dallas) reduced egg hatch drastically. The ovicidal activity apparently stemmed from ecdysteroids—unchanged hormone or metabolites—transferred from mother into oocyte. Different stages of embryogenesis were affected. Makisterone A, the predominant ecdysteroid in normal embryos, is by far the most effective ecdysteroid.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/75.6.935