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Metamorphic changes in the central projects of hair sensilla inTenebrio molitor L. (Insecta: Coleoptera)

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This paper describes the afferent projections of hair sensilla of the pro- and mesothoracic legs and the lateral thoracic sclerites of larval and adultTenebrio molitor and the corresponding set of pupal hair sensilla. The sensory neurons that innervate the hair sensilla of larval or adult insects project somatotopically into the thoracic neuropil. Different types of sensilla on the same region of the body surface project to the same zone of the ipsilateral thoracic ventral neuropil but exhibit different arborization patterns. Although there is a profound reorganization of body surface sensilla, the basic somatotopic layout of the larva is maintained in the adult. The sensory neurons that innervate the pupal hair sensilla possess central projections similar to those of the corresponding adult sensory neurons. The central projections of pupal sensory neurons are somatotopically oriented. Their projection pattern is serially homologous in the thoracic and the abdominal ganglia. The central projection pattern of the described pupal sensory neurons is constant throughout pupation. MAb 22C10 immunoreactivity allows an estimate of the timing of the early differentiation of the imaginal sensory neurons originating during pupation. Ablation experiments indicate that pupal sensory neurons influence the central projection pattern of the differentiating imaginal sensory neurons.

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Breidbach, O. Metamorphic changes in the central projects of hair sensilla inTenebrio molitor L. (Insecta: Coleoptera). Cell Tissue Res. 259, 159–175 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571440

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