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The Stomodaeal Nervous System, Neurosecretion, and Related Endocrine and Nervous Structures in Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

L. Burgess  and
J. G. Rempel
L. Burgess
Affiliation:
Entomology Laboratory, Box 218, Guelph, Ontario and Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
J. G. Rempel
Affiliation:
Entomology Laboratory, Box 218, Guelph, Ontario and Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
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This exhibit represents some portions of a study of the stomodaeal nervous system, neurosecretory cells, corpora allata, corpora cardiaca, and prothoracic gland cells in post-embryonic stages of Aedes aegypti (L.), the yellow fever mosquito. Some of these structures share the common property of being involved in the production of hormones.

Mosquitoes were reared under standard conditions. Larvae, pupae and adults were fixed at timed intervals in histological fixatives. Sectioned specimens were stained in Gomori's aldehyde-fuchsin, Gomori's chrome-haematoxyh-phloxin and other stains. The aldehyde-fuchsin technique, which imparted a bright purple colour to neurosecretory material, was particularly useful. Vita1 staining with methylene blue was used to trace the stomodaeal nervous system

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 96 , Issue 1-2 , February 1964 , pp. 105 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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1 Joint contribution of the Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, and the Entomology Laboratory, Research Branch, canada Department of Agriculture, Zuelph, Ontario.