Circuitry in the flight system of the locust, Locusta migratoria, was investigated by use of intracellular recording and staining techniques. Neuronal connections were established by recording simultaneously from neuropile segments of pairs of identified interneurons. Brief depolarizing current pulses delivered to interneurons 301 and 501 reset the flight rhythm in a phase-dependent manner, thu...

The shortage of available genomic and transcriptomic data hampers the molecular study on the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria manilensis (L.) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) central nervous system (CNS). In this study, locust CNS RNA was sequenced by deep sequencing. 41,179 unigenes were obtained with an average length of 570 bp, and 5,519 unigenes were longer than 1,000 bp. Compared with an EST da...

Inoue and Sato (2) haben fur die Anordnung der DNS im Spermium von Ceutophilus nigricans Scudder aufgrund von Messungen der Doppelbrechung and deren Veranderung nach Bestrahlung mit polarisiertem UV-Licht ein Modell entwickelt. Sie leiten aus ihren Untersuchungen ab, dat die DNS in Form eines supercoils der Ordnung n = 2 vorliegt . In dieser Terminologie stellt das gradlinige DNS-Molektil ein s...

The discontinuous gas exchange cycle (DGC) is a three-phase breathing pattern displayed by many insects at rest. The pattern consists of an extended breath-hold period (closed phase), followed by a sequence of rapid gas exchange pulses (flutter phase), and then a period in which respiratory gases move freely between insect and environment (open phase). This study measured CO(2) emission in rest...

The mechanisms by which different life histories affect neural circuits are largely unknown. We show that the thermosensitivity and thermotolerance of neural circuit operation are affected in a complex dynamic fashion by photoperiod, prior heat experience and the sex of the animal. We compared thermosensitivity and thermotolerance of ventilatory motor pattern generation in locusts reared under ...