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Octopamine levels during the moult cycle and adult development in the migratory locust,Locusta migratoria

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Octopamine content of the head of the locustLocusta migratoria has been determined during the last larval stage, moulting and adult life of 3 groups of insects: female and male gregarious, solitary and CO2 solitarized. An important difference was found between these 3 groups. Octopamine contents increased in the middle of the larval life and during the adult life. The moulting time is characterized by a sharp decrease of the octopamine content which becomes identical in the 3 groups of insects. The relation between octopamine content, hormone cycles and motility is discussed.

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  1. Laboratoire de Biologie de l'Insecte, Université de Paris-Sud, Bat 440-443, F-91405, Orsay, France

    Suzel Fuzeau-Braesch, J. F. Coulon & J. C. David

  2. U.E.R. de Biochimie, Université d'Angers, bd Lavoisier, F-49, Angers, France

    Suzel Fuzeau-Braesch, J. F. Coulon & J. C. David

  3. Laboratoire de Biochimie du Développement, I.R.B.M., Université Paris 7, 2, place Jussieu, Paris 5, France

    Suzel Fuzeau-Braesch, J. F. Coulon & J. C. David

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Fuzeau-Braesch, S., Coulon, J.F. & David, J.C. Octopamine levels during the moult cycle and adult development in the migratory locust,Locusta migratoria. Experientia 35, 1349–1350 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964001

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