Ovary Development in Mosquitoes

Ovary Development in Mosquitoes

IT has been known for many years that the oocytes of most mosquitoes do not develop beyond the resting stage without the mosquito taking a blood meal 1 , and two types of yolk particles (macrospheres and microspheres) have been recognized in the developing oocyte 2,3 . More recently the larger yolk...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 1963-11, Vol.200 (4905), p.495-496
Hauptverfasser: LAURENCE, B. R, ROSHDY, M. A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:IT has been known for many years that the oocytes of most mosquitoes do not develop beyond the resting stage without the mosquito taking a blood meal 1 , and two types of yolk particles (macrospheres and microspheres) have been recognized in the developing oocyte 2,3 . More recently the larger yolk particles (macrospheres) have been shown by histochemical methods to be protein and carbohydrate positive and the smaller (microspheres) contain lipids 4 .
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/200495a0