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American Zoologist 1993 33(3):397-402; doi:10.1093/icb/33.3.397
© 1993 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Hormonal Integration of Egg Production in Rhodnius prolixus1

K.G. DAVEY
Department of Biology, York University North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada

SYNOPSIS. This paper reviews the evidence dealing with hormonal controls on egg production in Rhodnius prolixus by which the inputs of feeding and mating are integrated. Juvenile hormone, secreted by the corpus allatum, plays a central role in egg production, intervening at several sites to control the duration of egg production. The controls on the corpus allatum are complex and apparently highly redundant, and the necessity for this redundancy is analysed in terms of the strategic advantage conferred on the insect by this network of controls.


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