HORMONAL CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE DEGENERATION OF FLIGHT MUSCLE IN THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE, LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA SAY (COLEOPTERA)

Stegwee , D.; Kimmel , E. C.; de Boer , J. A.; Henstra , S.

doi:10.1083/jcb.19.3.519

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HORMONAL CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE DEGENERATION OF FLIGHT MUSCLE IN THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE, LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA SAY (COLEOPTERA)

D. Stegwee,

D. Stegwee

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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E. C. Kimmel,

E. C. Kimmel

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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J. A. de Boer,

J. A. de Boer

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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S. Henstra

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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D. Stegwee

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

E. C. Kimmel

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

J. A. de Boer

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

S. Henstra

From the Laboratory for Entomology, Agricultural University, and the Electron Microscopy Department of The Service Institute for Technical Physics in Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Received: January 28 1963

Online ISSN: 1540-8140

Print ISSN: 0021-9525

1963

J Cell Biol (1963) 19 (3): 519–527.

https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.19.3.519

In the hibernating (diapausing) Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say, the flight muscles show pronounced degeneration. The muscle fibrils are greatly reduced in diameter and the sarcosomes are virtually absent. Similar signs of degeneration could be produced by extirpation of the postcerebral complex of endocrine glands, the corpora cardiaca and corpora allata. Reimplantation of active postcerebral complexes resulted in a very rapid regeneration of the muscle fibrils and new formation of sarcosomes.

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