Transformations in the abdominal muscles of the blue blow-fly, Calliphora erythrocephala (Meig), during metamorphosis.

The relation between larval and adult abnormalities in the abdominal segmentation of Calliphora erythrocephala (Diptera).

Early embryonic stages of Calliphora erythrocephala were X-irradiated to produce abdominal abnormalities of segmental pattern. Abnormal patterns were examined in the puparial stage: 75 (Series AA) larvae with dorsal or lateral abnormality were classified and the larval abnormality compared with the pattern of abdominal segmentation in the emerging adult fly; another 75 (Series aa) larvae were e...

Looking into the puparium: Micro‐CT visualization of the internal morphological changes during metamorphosis of the blow fly, Calliphora vicina, with the first quantitative analysis of organ development in cyclorrhaphous dipterans

Metamorphosis of cyclorrhaphous flies takes place inside a barrel-like puparium, formed by the shrinking, hardening and darkening of the third-instar larval cuticle. The opacity of this structure hampers the visualization of the morphological changes occurring inside and therefore a full understanding of the metamorphosis process. Here, we use micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to describe th...

Influence of the corpus allatum on the oxygen consumption of adult Calliphora erythrocephala Meig.

Ultrastructural changes during transition of larval to adult intersegmental muscle at metamorphosis in the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala

Dating Pupae of the Blow Fly Calliphora vicina Robineau–Desvoidy 1830 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) for Post Mortem Interval—Estimation: Validation of Molecular Age Markers

Determining the age of juvenile blow flies is one of the key tasks of forensic entomology when providing evidence for the minimum post mortem interval. While the age determination of blow fly larvae is well established using morphological parameters, the current study focuses on molecular methods for estimating the age of blow flies during the metamorphosis in the pupal stage, which lasts about...