Aspectos da oogenese do Chrysomya putoria (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera, calliphoridae)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1984

RESUMO

This study was carried out to investigate some basic aspects concerning the reproductive biology of a blowfly, Chrydomya putoria (Ca11iphoridae) which has recently been introduced in Brazil.Adu1t flies were kept in cages and were fed on fresh cattle liver during 3 hours a day and water "adlibitum".Results showed that females presented a synchronic development of ovarian follicles, a process which took 6 days at least to be completed.No yolk deposition in the follicles was started out unless a proper protein diet has been supplied. Therefore, C. putoria was an anautogenous species when fed only with sugar and water. However C.putoria maintained its reproductive potential presenting normal follicle growth when liver was available even after along time under an aproteic diet. The concerned species was able to develop the second batch of eggs when the first one had not been laid yet. Thus, the arnount of eggs of a certain oviposition could be multiplied. Great changes in populations structure can be expected if the facts above also occur in the field since females do not complete oogenesis without proteic matter, but when it is present again in the field, eggs can be produced and, consequently, new flies will be risen. In addition, when ideal conditions for egg laying do not occur, there will be mature follicle batches multiplication. In this species, ovaries are classified as meroistic polytrophic, each one presenting 76 follicles in average. There are 15 nurse cells in a follicle and their nucleous may present a final ploidy 13 times greater than the initial one, which was estimated in view of the nucleous areas projections obtained in Feulgen-stained whole mounts. Typical polytenic chromosomes can be seen at the begining of this nuclear material multiplication. Those nuclei present a very remarkable DNA body which we did not find described for other alliphoridae species. C. putoria ovarian developrnent pattern is very similar to that of Tanzania (Eastern Africa) species. When these two species are crossed, fertile progeny is produced. This leads to the hypothesis of its origin from the Eastern Africa instead of the Western one as previously described

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oogenese mosca - histologia mosca - ovo - implantação

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