Apolysis in Arthropod Moulting Cycles

An unexpected advantage of insectivorism: insect moulting hormones ingested by song birds affect their ticks.

Ecdysteroids are important hormones that regulate moulting in arthropods. Three-host ixodid ticks normally moult to the next stage after finishing their blood meal, in the off-host environment. Presumably, three-host ticks that feed on the blood of insectivorous vertebrate hosts can be exposed to high levels of exogenous ecdysteroids causing them to initiate apolysis (the first step of moulting...

Anti-moulting activity in Brazilian Melia azedarach.

The significance of moulting in Ecdysozoan evolution.

Three major bilaterian clades first appear in the Early Cambrian fossil record: Deuterostomia, Lophotrochozoa, and Ecdysozoa. The taxa placed in Ecdysozoa are characterized by a moulting habit, unknown in the other major clades. The origin and consequences of moulting are of fundamental importance to the history of the ecdysozoan clade, chiefly because moulting precludes motile ectodermal cilia...

The role of moulting in parasite defence.

Parasitic infections consist of a succession of steps during which hosts and parasites interact in specific manners. At each step, hosts can use diverse defence mechanisms to counteract the parasite's attempts to invade and exploit them. Of these steps, the penetration of parasites into the host is a key step for a successful infection and the epithelium is the first line of host defence. The s...

Induced Moulting in Layers – a Review

Poultry industry is playing the biggest role in the industries of the developing countries with respect to the capital generated by this industry as well as the fulfillment of the nutritional requirements. The improvement in the production potential of the existing layer population is more imperative as compared to the size of the flock. In this aspect induced moulting is a valuable as well as ...