The role of the frontal ganglion in the feeding and eclosion behavior of the moth Manduca sexta

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1785-1798

  Miles, Carol I ^a   Booker, Ronald ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestion; Ecdysis; Feeding; Frontal ganglion; Insect; Manduca sexta; Stomatogastric; Tobacco hawkmoth

Indexed keywords

MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 0031803872     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. BELL, R. A. (1986). Role of the frontal ganglion in lepidopterous insects. In Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology (ed. A. B. Borkovee and D. B. Gelman), pp. 321-324. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press.
2. BELL, R. A. AND JOACHIM, F. A. (1976). Technique for rearing laboratory colonies of tobacco hornworms and pink bollworms. Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 69, 365-373.
3. BERNAYS, E. A. (1972). The intermediate moult (first ecdysis) of Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Insecta, Orthoptera). Z. morph. Tiere 71, 160-179.
4. BERNAYS, E. A. (1985). Regulation of feeding behaviour. In Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, vol. 4 (ed. G. A. Kerkut and L. I. Gilbert), pp. 1-32. Oxford, New York: Plenum
5. BESTMAN, J. E., MILES, C. I. AND BOOKER, R. (1997). Neural and behavioral changes associated with larval molts in the moth Manduca sexta. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23, 768.
6. BUSHMAN, D. W. AND NELSON, J. O. (1990). The role of the frontal ganglion and corpora cardiaca/corpora allata complex in post-feeding weight loss in adult Heliothus zea. Physiol. Ent. 15, 269-274.
7. CARLSON, J. R. (1977). The imaginai ecdysis of the cricket (Teleogryllus oceanicus). I. Organization of motor patterns and roles of central and sensory control. J. comp. Physiol. A 115, 299-317.
8. CHAING, R. G. AND DAVEY, K. G. (1988). A novel receptor capable of monitoring applied pressure in the abdomen of an insect. Science 241, 1665-1667.
9. COPENHAVER, P. F. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1982). The role eclosion hormone in the larval ecdyses of Manduca sexta. J. Insect Physiol. 28, 695-701.
10. CORNELL, J. C. AND PAN, M. L. (1983). The disappearance of moulting fluid in the tobacco hornworm. Manduca sexta. J. exp. Biol. 107, 501-504.
11. COTTRELL, C. B. (1962). General observations on the imaginai ecdysis of blowflies. Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond 114, 317-333.
12. COTTRELL, C. B. (1964). Insect ecdysis with particular emphasis on cuticular hardening and darkening. Adv. Insect Physiol. 2, 175-218.
13. DANIEL, T. L. KINGSOLVER, J. G. AND MEYHÖFER, E. (1989). Mechanical determinants of nectar-feeding energetics in butterflies: muscle mechanics, feeding geometry and functional equivalence. Oecologia 79, 66-75.
14. EASTHAM, L. E. S. AND EASSA, Y. E. E. (1955). The feeding mechanism of the butterfly Pieris hrassicae. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 239, 1-43.
15. EWER, J., DEVENTE, J. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1994). Neuropeptide induction of cyclic GMP increases in the insect CNS: Resolution at the level of single identified neurons. J. Neurosci. 14, 7704-7714.
16. EWER, J., GAMMIE, S. C. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1997). Control of insect ecdysis by a positive feedback endocrine system: roles of eclosion hormone and ecdysis triggering hormone. J. exp. Biol. 200, 809-881.
17. GAMMIE, S. C. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1997). Neuropeptide heirarchies and the activation of sequential motor behaviors in the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta. J. Neurosci. 17, 4389-4397.
18. GELPERIN, A. (1971). Abdominal sensory neurons providing negative feedback to the feeding behaviour of the blowfly. Z. vergl. Physiol. 72, 17-31.
19. GELPERIN, A. (1972). Neural control systems underlying insect feeding behaviour. Am. Zool. 12, 489-496.
20. GRISS, C. (1990). Mandibular motor neurons of the caterpillar of the hawk moth Manduca sexta. J. comp. Neurol. 296, 393-402.
21. HUGHES, T. D. (1980a). The imaginal ecdysis of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria. I. A description of the behaviour. Physiol. Ent. 5, 47-54.
22. HUGHES, T. D. (1980b). The imaginal ecdysis of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria. III. Motor activity underlying the expansional and post-expansional behaviour. Physiol. Ent. 5, 141-152.
23. KINGAN, T. G., GRAY, W., ZITNAN, D. AND ADAMS, M. E. (1997). Regulation of ecdysis-triggering hormone release by eclosion hormone. J. exp. Biol. 200, 3245-3256.
24. KINGSOLVER, J. G. AND DANIEL, T. L. (1995). Mechanics of food handling by fluid feeding insects. In Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding (ed. R. F. Chapman and G. DeBoer), pp. 32-73. New York: Chapman & Hall.
25. LENSKY, Y., COHEN, C. AND SCHNEIDERMAN, H. A. (1970). The origin. distribution and fate of the molting fluid proteins of the cecropia silkworm. Biol. Bull. mar. biol. Lab., Woods Hole 139, 277-295.
26. LEVINE, R. B. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1985). Dendritic reorganization of abdominal motoneurons during metamorphosis of the moth. Manduca sexta. J. Neurosci. 5, 2424-2431.
27. MESCE, K. A., KLUKAS, K. A. AND BRELJE, T. C. (1993). Improvements for the anatomical characterization of insect neurons in whole mount: the use of cyanine-derived fluorophores and laser scanning confocal microscopy. Cell Tissue Res. 271, 381-397.
28. MILES, C. I. AND BOOKER, R. (1994). The role of the frontal ganglion in foregut movements of the moth Manduca sexta. J. comp. Physiol. A 174, 755-767.
29. MILES, C. I. AND WEEKS, J. C. (1991). Developmental attenuation of the pre-ecdysis motor pattern in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. J. comp. Physiol. A 168, 179-190.
30. MORTON, D. B. AND GIUNTA, M. A. (1992). Eclosion hormone stimulates cyclic GMP in the nervous system of the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta. J. Neurochem. 59, 1522-1530.
31. REYNOLDS, S. E. (1977). Control of cuticle extensibility in the wings of adult Manduca at the time of eclosion: effects of eclosion hormone and bursicon. J. exp. Biol. 70, 27-39.
32. REYNOLDS, S. E. (1980). Integration of behaviour and physiology in ecdysis. Adv. Insect Physiol. 15, 475-595.
33. REYNOLDS, S. E., TAGHERT, P. H. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1979). Eclosion hormone and bursicon titres and the onset of hormonal responsiveness during the last day of adult development in Manduca sexta J. exp. Biol. 78, 77-86.
34. ROHRBACHER, J. (1994). Fictive chewing activity in motor neurons and interneurons of the subesophageal ganglion of Manduca sexta larvae. J. comp. Physiol. A 175, 629-637.
35. SCHWARTZ, L. M. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1983). Hormonal control of rates of metamorphic development in the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta. Devl Biol. 99, 103-114.
36. SNOOGRASS, R. E. (1935). Principles of Insect Morphology. New York, London: McGraw-Hill.
37. TIMMINS, W. A. AND REYNOLDS, S. E. (1992). Physiological mechanisms underlying the control of meal size in Manduca sexta larvae. Physiol. Ent. 17, 81-89.
38. TRIMMER, B. A. AND WEEKS, J. C. (1989). Effects of nicotinic and muscarinic agents on an identified motoneurone and its direct afferent inputs in larval Manduca sexta. J. exp. Biol. 144, 303-337.
39. TRUMAN, J. W. (1971). Physiology of insect ecdysis. I. The eclosion behavior of saturniid moths and its hormonal release. J. exp. Biol. 54, 805-814.
40. TRUMAN, J. W. (1973). Physiology of insect ecdysis. III. Relationship between the hormonal control of eclosion and of tanning in the tobacco hornworm. Manduca sexta. J. exp. Biol. 58, 821-829.
41. TRUMAN, J. W. AND ENDO, P. T. (1974). Physiology of insect ecdysis: neural and hormonal factors involved in wing-spreading behaviour of moths. J. exp. Biol. 61, 47-55.
42. TRUMAN, J. W., TAGHERT, P. H., COPENHAVER, P. F., TUBLITZ, N. J. AND SCHWARTZ, L. M. (1981a). Eclosion hormone may control all ecdyses in insects. Nature 291, 70-71.
43. TRUMAN, J. W., TAGHERT, P. H. AND REYNOLDS, S. E. (1981b). Physiology of pupal ecdysis in the tobacco hornworm. Manduca sexta. I. Evidence for control by eclosion hormone. J. exp. Biol. 88, 327-337.
44. WACHTER, S. (1930). The moulting of the silkworm and a histological study of the moulting gland. Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 23, 381-393.
45. WEEKS, J. C. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1984). Neural organization of peptide-activated ecdysis behaviors during the metamorphosis of Manduca sexta. I. Conservation of the peristalsis motor pattern at the larval-pupal transformation. J. comp. Physiol. 155, 407-422.
46. WEEKS, J. C. AND TRUMAN, J. W. (1985). Independent steroid control of the fates of motoneurons and their muscles during insect metamorphosis. J. Neurosci. 5, 2290-2300.
47. ZITNAN, D., KINGAN, T. G., HERMESMAN, J. E. AND ADAMS, M. E. (1996). Identification of ecdysis-triggering hormone from an epitracheal endocrine system. Science 271, 88-91.