In mammals, triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation in nonadipose tissue, termed lipotoxicity, develops with obesity and can provoke insulin resistance, overt diabetes, and ovarian dysfunction. Leptin, an adipose tissue hormone, may mediate these effects. Feed-satiated broiler breeder hens manifest lipotoxicity-like symptoms. Changes in body and organ weights, hepatic and plasma TAG, nonesterified f...

An exhaustive study of existing data on the relationship between egg size and maximum size of embryonic shells in 42 species of extant cephalopods demonstrated that these values are approximately equal regardless of taxonomy and shell morphology. Egg size is also approximately equal to mantle length of hatchlings in 45 cephalopod species with rudimentary shells. Paired data on the size of the i...

The predator Podisus distinctus (Stål) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) has been reared to control lepidopteran defoliators. In this study, we describe this predator's morphology, postdepositional dynamics and eggs in different developmental stages under scanning electron microscope. Its eggs are subglobular and ovoid, narrower at the base than at the top, with a convex, circular operculum...

The egg cases, larvae, and pupae of Tropisternus (Pristoternus) latus (Brullé, 1837), T. (P.) ovalis Castelnau, 1840, and T. (P.) laevis (Sturm, 1826) are illustrated and described for the first time. The egg cases are built with or without a mast, which can be ribbon-like or globular; all larval instars have seven anterior denticles in the anterior margin of nasale, and the antennal seta AN8 i...

The chorionic structure of sixteen pentatomid species is described. Morphological patterns in different taxonomic levels are discussed. In addition, egg characters useful in cladistic analyses are listed, and some of those characters are tested for congruence with two cladistic analyses previously conducted within Pentatomidae. Descriptive studies were conducted with Banasa induta, Capivaccius ...

Hybridization tests of the two karyotypic forms (Form A and B) of laboratory-raised, isolines of Anopheles vagus, were conducted by induced copulation. The results of reciprocal- and back-crosses indicated that they were genetically compatible, providing viable progeny. Comparative egg morphometry and morphology, aided by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), revealed that the eggs of the two kar...

PAGE PAGE Introduction . . . . . 27 Sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents . . . . . 41 Historical outline . . . . 28 Immunological reactions . . 42 General characteristics Pathogenicity . . . . 43 Definition . . . . . 29 Classification and nomenclature . 30 Details of individual species Relationship to the . L-phase variants of bacteria . . Technical methods . . . Nutritional and growth requir...

Aiming to contribute to knowledge of the immature instars of Neotropical Lepidoptera, this study details the morphology of the egg and last instar larvae of Aucula magnifica (Schaus, 1904) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae), emphasising the structures of the corium and the chaetotaxy. There is also a report of the occurrence of entomopathogenic action of Nomuraea rileyi (Farlow) Samson fungi...

The results of studies 11 stone beaches on the coast Barents Sea in area Teriberskaya Bay have been presented. were carried out from 2017 to 2019. As a result work, structure beaches, their size, composition clastic material and relationship with bedrocks studied detail. genetic link between sea terraces has established. Special attention paid morphology beach material, conditions its formation...

Studying the species distribution of Limnadiidae, a family of crustaceans, in environments favourable to their growth and reproduction is made difficult by their extremely short life cycle and the transient existence of adult forms. However, the eggs of these branchiopods are highly resistant to environmental extremes and persist in the soil of humidified and dried pools. We therefore studied t...