The control of water movement through the cuticle of terrestrial arthropods is demonstrated by a number of phenomena. For example, Lees (1946) has shown an active retention of water, Winston & Nelson (1965) indicate an active regulation of water loss, and Beament (1961) reviews the evidence for active uptake of atmospheric water. These phenomena are best explained by a water pump of some kind i...

Abstract Oxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation oxygen isotopes between and water ( $$\upalpha_{\text{cuticle}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ ? cuticle</mml:mte...

In insects the development of a rigid exoskeleton requires that for growth and metamorphosis to occur a new cuticle must be periodically formed and the old one cast off. This process (the moult) is initiated with the release of the prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) from the brain. Then follows the secretion of a second hormone, ecdysone, by the prothoracic glands, the apolysis of the epidermis ...

plant tissue culture refers to growing and multiplication of cells, tissues and organs of plants on defined solid or liquid media under aseptic and controlled environment. micropropagation allows rapid production of high quality, disease-free and uniform planting material. the micropropagation of high quality planting materials of ornamentals, and forest and fruit trees has created new opportun...

in eukaryotes, vesicle trafficking is regulated by the small monomeric gtpases of the rab protein family. rab11, (a subfamily of the ypt/rab gene family) an evolutionarily conserved, ubiquitously expressed subfamily of small monomeric rab gtpases, has been implicated in regulating vesicular trafficking through the recycling of endosomal compartment. in an earlier communication, we have shown th...

Citation: Bellingeri M, Quilot-Turion B, Oliveira Lino L and Bevacqua D (2018) The Crop Load Affects Brown Rot Progression in Fruit Orchards: High Fruit Densities Facilitate Fruit Exposure to Spores but Reduce the Infection Rate by Decreasing Fruit Growth and Cuticle Cracking. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:170. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00170 The Crop Load Affects Brown Rot Progression in Fruit Orchards: H...

A mammalian hair fiber consists of the medulla, cortex and cuticle from the center to the outside in this order [1]. The major mass of hair fiber is located in the cortical region, which mainly consists of keratin filaments and matrix proteins. On the outside of the cortical region, there is cuticle which has about 5 μm in thickness and consists of about 10 keratinized sheet-like-cells. There a...

This paper describes cuticular structures on the abdomen of the Oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis, Vespinae, Hymenoptera) in the region of the yellow stripes. A cross section in this region reveals the cuticle to resemble a notebook with more than 30 pages, the topmost pages (analogous to layers) being the thicker (up to 5 μm or more in thickness), while the ones underneath are gradually thinne...

Two new genera and species parasitizing passalid beetles from the Democratic Republic of Congo are described. Kongonema meyeri gen. n. sp. n. is characterized by having females with the cervical cuticle unarmed, first cephalic annule cone-like and truncate, sub-cylindrical procorpus and genital tract didelphic-amphidelphic. The males of Kongonema meyeri gen. n. sp. n. have the procorpus sub-cyl...