Chatani Fumio, Ohnishi Eiji
Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464, Japan.
Dev Growth Differ. 1976;18(4):481-484. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.1976.00481.x.
From the ligation experiments, it is indicated that the secretion from prothoracic glands during early pupal period induces the ovarian development in female pupa of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. The exogenous β-ecdysone injected into isolated pupal abdomen also induces the initiation of the ovarian development.
结扎实验表明,家蚕雌蛹早期前胸腺的分泌可诱导卵巢发育。向离体蛹腹部注射外源β-蜕皮激素也可诱导卵巢发育的起始。