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CHITIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION BY NIKKOMYCIN IN THE INTEGUMENT OF MANDUCA-SEXTA - AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIC STUDY

Authors list: SCHLUTER, U; SEIFERT, G

Publication year: 1989

Pages: 387-391

Journal: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volume number: 53

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0022-2011

eISSN: 1096-0805

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2011(89)90104-3

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract:
Nikkomycin exerts a dose-dependent chitin synthesis inhibition when injected into pharate fifth instar larvae of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. This effect can be clearly visualized by electron microscopy and by fluorescence microscopy. Comparison of the results presented here with previous microscopical studies on other arthropod groups suggest that the length of an intermolt cycle and duration of the cuticle deposition phase may be responsible for the molting inhibitory potence of Nikkomycin in different arthropod taxa.

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Harvard Citation style: SCHLUTER, U. and SEIFERT, G. (1989) CHITIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION BY NIKKOMYCIN IN THE INTEGUMENT OF MANDUCA-SEXTA - AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIC STUDY, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 53(3), pp. 387-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2011(89)90104-3

APA Citation style: SCHLUTER, U., & SEIFERT, G. (1989). CHITIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION BY NIKKOMYCIN IN THE INTEGUMENT OF MANDUCA-SEXTA - AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIC STUDY. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 53(3), 387-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2011(89)90104-3

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