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The Endocrine Control of Flight Metabolism in Locusts

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Insect Flight

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Abstract

Reserves of respiratory fuels in insect flight muscles are usually only sufficient to meet energy requirements at the initiation of flight, and are too small to sustain prolonged flight activity. The flight muscles must thus take up fuels from the haemolymph. In locusts, the carbohydrate content of the haemolymph is greater than that stored in the tissues, but the opposite is true for the fat reserves (see Goldsworthy 1983). Hormones play an important role in coordinating the supply and utilisation of fuels during sustained flight in locusts, and this will be the major theme of this review.

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    Wijesiri Danthanarayana

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Goldsworthy, G.J., Wheeler, C.H. (1986). The Endocrine Control of Flight Metabolism in Locusts. In: Danthanarayana, W. (eds) Insect Flight. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71155-8_4

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