| comparison of microfilament patterns in nurse cells of different insects with polytrophic and telotrophic ovarioles. | the localization of f-actin (microfilaments) in the nurse cells of ovarian follicles has been studied in 12 different insect species by fluorescence microscopy after specifically staining f-actin with rhodamine-conjugated phalloidin. in the analysed species with polytrophic ovaries (apis mellifica, pimpla turionellae, bradysia tritici, ephestia kuehniella, protophormia terraenovae) a dense f-actin network was found to be associated with the nurse cell membranes. only in protophormia were microfi ... | 1986 | 3734686 |
| potential for classical biological control of the potato bug closterotomus norwegicus (hemiptera: miridae): description, parasitism and host specificity of peristenus closterotomae sp. n. (hymenoptera: braconidae). | the potato bug, closterotomus norwegicus (gmelin) (hemiptera: miridae) is an introduced pest of lucerne, white clover and lotus seed crops in new zealand and a key pest of pistachios in california, usa. efforts were made to identify potential biological control agents of c. norwegicus in europe. a total of eight parasitoids, including six primary parasitoids from the genus peristenus (hymenoptera: braconidae) and two hyperparasitoids from the genus mesochorus (hymenoptera: ichneumonidae), were r ... | 2006 | 16923210 |