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Using a well characterized anti-serum, the distribution of octopamine-like immunoreactive neurones is described in the locust seventh abdominal (A7) and terminal ganglia (TG), which are associated with genital organs. Apart from 4 paired ventral somata occasionally observed in the TG, all labelled cells could be identified as efferent dorsal- and ventral unpaired median (DUM/VUM) neurones by virtue of the characteristic large size and position of their somata, projections of their primary neurites in DUM-cell tracts, and bifurcating axons which arise from dorsal T-junctions and enter peripheral nerves. For the examined ganglia our data indicate that the whole population of efferent DUM and VUM-cells, defined here as progeny of the segment specific unpaired median neuroblast with peripheral axons, are octopaminergic, and that equal numbers of these cells occur in both sexes: 8 in A7 and 11 in TG. Sex-specific differences are probably restricted to the axonal projections of 5 octopamine-like immunoreactive DUM-somata in A7, and 5 in TG, which in females project into their segment specific sternal nerves, but in males into the genital nerve of the TG. Numerous intersegmentally projecting octopamine-like immunoreactive fibres traverse both ganglia. The majority probably stem from previously described octopamine-like immunoreactive neurones in the thoracic and suboesophageal ganglia.
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Stevenson, P.A., Pflüger, HJ., Eckert, M. et al. Octopamine-like immunoreactive neurones in locust genital abdominal ganglia. Cell Tissue Res 275, 299–308 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319428
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