• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.13-17
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• 2002

Present communication deals with quantitative determination of total lipid, triglycerides, total free fatty acids, phospholipids and total cholesterol in the fat body tissue of the silkworm adapted to low and high temperatures. At the end of spinning process is characterized by a marked cellular reorganization of the different lipid fraction of the fat body irrespective of thermal acclimation. Accordingly, the per cent composition of triglycerides of the total lipid is increased accompanied by a corresponding decrease in free fatty acids, phospholipids and cholesterol.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.371-378
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• 1992

The ecdysteroid titers of representive developmental stages of the blackblow fly, Phormia regina, were determined by radioimmunoassay and the effect of ecdysteroid on the oocyte maturation was investigated. Prior to every molts ecdysteroid levels began to increase sharply, suggesting ecdysteroid was the major component for egg-larval, larval-larval, and larval-pupal transformation. A difference in the levels of ecdysteroid between male and female was ob¬served during adult life span. Following the protein meal, ecdysteroid in the females increased rapidly to a maximum at 96 hr of age when terminal oocyte fully matured. Effect of ecdysteroid on oocyte development was determined for control and ecdysone-treated female flies after the liver-feeding. The growth of oocyte in the flies treated by $\mu$g of ecdysone, along with the control flies, was not facilitated. When the flies treated by 5 $\mu$g of ecdysone, however, duration of oocyte maturation was shorter than those of other two groups. This can be suggested that oocyte development in P. regina is due to the critical level of ecdysone.