Journal article
Isolation of the abdomen releases oviposition behaviour in females of the cricket, Acheta domesticus
Journal of insect physiology, Vol.28(5), pp.401-404
1982
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1910(82)90065-8
Abstract
Upon isolation, abdomens of adult female house crickets (
Acheta domesticus) produced abdominal and ovipositor movements characteristic of normal oviposition. Oviposition behaviour was thus released even in reproductively mature or immature virgins where under normal conditions it was never observed. Decapitation was not sufficient to release oviposition behaviour but transection of the ventral nerve cord between the thorax and the abdomen of immobilized females evoked the response. These observations indicate that the motor programmes for certain components of the oviposition sequence reside in the abdominal ganglia. Moreover, the prerequisite circuitry for ovipositional posturing of the abdomen and ovipositor appears to be functional prior to sexual maturity and insemination, primed by mating, and subject to inhibition by the thoracic ganglia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Isolation of the abdomen releases oviposition behaviour in females of the cricket, Acheta domesticus
- Creators
- Grant M. Carrow - Harvard UniversityRafael de Jesus CabezaGlenn Flores - Harvard University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of insect physiology, Vol.28(5), pp.401-404
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/0022-1910(82)90065-8
- ISSN
- 0022-1910
- eISSN
- 1879-1611
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1982
- Academic Unit
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Record Identifier
- 9984695837902771
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