Culex quinquefasciatus vitellogenesis: Morphological and biochemical aspects

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 254-262

  Cardoso, André F ^a   Cres, Renato L ^a   Moura, Alexandre S ^a   de Almeida, Fábio ^a   Bijovsky, A Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culex quinquefasciatus; Fat body; Immunolabelling; Morphology; Ovary; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS;

EID: 77953483922     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000300003     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Atlas SJ, Roth TF, Falcone AJ 1978. Purification and partial characterization of Culex pipiens fatigans yolk protein. Insect Biochem 8: 111-115.
2. Attardo GM, Hansen IA, Raikhel AS 2005. Nutritional regulation of vitellogenesis in mosquitoes: implications for anautogeny. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 35: 661-675.
3. Behan M, Hagedorn HH 1978. Ultrastructural changes in the fat body of adult female Aedes aegypti in relationship to vitellogenin synthesis. Cell Tissue Res 186: 499-506.
4. Bose SG, Raikhel AS 1988. Mosquito vitellogenin subunits originate from a common precursor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 155: 436-442.
5. Bradford MM 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72: 248-254.
6. Briegel H, Gut T, Lea AO 2003. Sequential deposition of yolk components during oogenesis in an insect, Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). J Insect Physiol 49: 249-260.
7. Chapman RF 1998. The insects: structure and function, 4th ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 770 pp.
8. Clements AN 1992. The biology of mosquitoes. Development, nutrition and reproduction, 1th ed., Chapman and Hall press, London, 509 pp.
9. Clements AN, Boocock MR 1984. Ovarian development in mosquitoes: stages of growth and arrest and follicular resorption. Physiol Entomol 9: 1-8.
10. da Cunha Sais T, de Moraes RM, Ribolla PE, de Bianchi AG, Marinotti O, Bijovsky AT 2003. Morphological aspects of Culex quinquefasciatus salivary glands. Arthropod Struct Dev 32: 219-226.
11. de Bianchi AG, Coutinho M, Pereira SD, Marinotti O, Targa HJ 1985. Vitellogenin and vitellin of Musca domestica - Quantification and synthesis by fat-bodies and ovaries. Insect Biochem 15: 77-84.
12. Dhadialla TS, Raikhel AS 1990. Biosynthesis of mosquito vitellogenin. J Biol Chem 265: 9924-9933.
13. Dhadialla TS, Raikhel AS 1991. Binding of vitellogenin to membranes isolated from mosquito ovaries. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 18: 55-70.
14. Edwards MJ, Severson DW, Hagedorn HH 1998. Vitelline envelope genes of yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 28: 915-925.
15. Fallon AM, Hagedorn HH, Wyatt GR, Laufer H 1974. Activation of vitellogenin synthesis in the mosquito Aedes aegypti by ecdysone. J Insect Physiol 20: 1815-1823.
16. Fan YL, Zurek L, Dykstra MJ, Schal C 2003. Hydrocarbon synthesis by enzymatically dissociated oenocytes of the abdominal integument of the German Cockroach, Blaftella germanica. Naturwissenschaften 90: 121-126.
17. Gaunt MW, Sall AA, Lamballerie XD, Falconar AKI, Dzhivanian TI, Gould EA 2001. Phylogenetic relationships of flaviviruses correlate with their epidemiology, disease association and biogeography. J Gen Virol 82: 1867-1876.
18. Gomes AS, de Sa Sciavico CJ, Eiras AE 2006. Periodicity of oviposition of females of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) (Diptera: Culicidae) in laboratory and field. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 39: 327-332.
19. Hagedorn HH, Fallon A, Laufer H 1973. Vitellogenin synthesis by the fat body of the mosquito Aedes aegypti: evidence of transcriptional control. Dev Biol 31: 285-294.
20. Hagedorn HH, Judson CL 1972. Purification and site of synthesis of Aedes aegypti yolk proteins. J Exp Zool 182: 367-377.
21. Hamer GL, Kitron UD, Brawn JD, Loss SR, Ruiz MO, Goldberg TL, Walker ED 2008. Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae): a bridge vector of West Nile virus to humans. J Med Entomol 45: 125-128.
22. Hinton HE 1968. Structure and protective devices of the egg of the mosquito Culex pipiens. J Insect Physiol 14: 145-161.
23. Keeley LL 1978. Endocrine regulation of fat-body development and function. Annu Rev Entomol 23: 329-352.
24. Laemmli UK 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227: 680-685.
25. Lucantoni L, Giusti F, Cristofaro M, Pasqualini L, Esposito F, Lupetti P, Habluetzel A 2006. Effects of a neem extract on blood feeding, oviposition and oocyte ultrastructure in Anopheles stephensi Liston (Diptera: Culicidae). Tissue Cell 38: 361-371.
26. Malafronte RS, Calvo E, James AA, Marinotti O 2003. The major salivary gland antigens of Culex quinquefasciatus are D7-related proteins. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 33: 63-71.
27. Monnerat AT, Soares MJ, Lima JBP, Rosa-Freitas MG, Valle D 1999. Anopheles albitarsis eggs: ultrastructural analysis of chorion layers after permeabilization. J Insect Physiol 45: 915-922.
28. Okuda K, de Almeida F, Mortara RA, Krieger H, Marinotti O, Bijovsky AT 2007. Cell death and regeneration in the midgut of the mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus. J Insect Physiol 53: 1307-1315.
29. Okuda K, de Souza Caroci A, Ribolla PE, de Bianchi AG, Bijovsky AT 2002. Functional morphology of adult female Culex quinquefasciatus midgut during blood digestion. Tissue Cell 34: 210-219.
30. Okuda K, Esteva M, Segura EL, Bijovsy AT 1999. The cytostome of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes is associated with the flagellar complex. Exp Parasitol 92: 223-231.
31. Raikhel AS 1984. The accumulative pathway of vitellogenin in the mosquito oocyte: a high-resolution immuno and cytochemical study. J Ultrastruct Res 87: 285-302.
32. Raikhel AS 1986. Lysosomes in the cessation of vitellogenin secretion by the mosquito fat body; selective degradation of Golgi complexes and secretory granules. Tissue Cell 18: 125-142.
33. Raikhel AS 1987. Monoclonal antibodies as probes for processing of the mosquito yolk protein; a high-resolution immunolocalization of secretory and accumulative pathways. Tissue Cell 19: 515-529.
34. Raikhel AS, Dhadialla TS 1992. Accumulation of yolk proteins in insect oocytes. Ann Rev Entomol 37: 217-251.
35. Raikhel AS, Lea AO 1983. Previtellogenic development and vitellogenin synthesis in the fat body of a mosquito: an ultrastructural and immunocytochemical study. Tissue Cell 15: 281-300.
36. Raikhel AS, Lea AO 1991. Control of follicular epithelium development and vitelline envelope formation in the mosquito; role of juvenile hormone and 20-hydroxyecdysone. Tissue Cell 23: 577-591.
37. Ribeiro JM, Charlab R, Pham VM, Garfield M, Valenzuela JG 2004. An insight into the salivary transcriptome and proteome of the adult female mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 34: 543-563.
38. Roth TF, Porter KR 1964. Yolk protein uptake in the oocyte of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. L. J Cell Biol 20: 313-332.
39. Sappington TW, Raikhel AS 1998. Molecular characteristics of insect vitellogenins and vitellogenin receptors. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 28: 277-300.
40. Snigirevskaya ES, Hays AR, Raikhel AS 1997. Secretory and internalization pathways of mosquito yolk protein precursors. Cell Tissue Res 290: 129-142.
41. Tadkowski TM, Jones JC 1978. Endogenous synthesis of lipid yolk in mosquito oocytes. Experientia 34: 627-627.
42. Tadkowski TM, Jones JC, Firman J 1977. The fine structure of the imaginal oenocytes of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Annals Entom Soc Am 70: 837-840.
43. Vaidyanathan R, Scott TW 2007. Geographic variation in vector competence for West Nile virus in the Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) complex in California. Vector-Borne Zoon Dis 7: 193-198.
44. Van Essen PHA, Kemme JA, Ritchie SA, Kay BH 1994. Differential responses of Aedes and Culex mosquitoes to octenol or light in combination with carbon dioxide in Queensland, Australia. Med Vet Entomol 8: 63-67.
45. Van Handel E 1992. Postvitellogenic metabolism of the mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus) ovary. J Insect Physiol 38: 75-79.
46. Van Handel E 1993. Fuel metabolism of the mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus) embryo. J Insect Physiol 39: 831-833.
47. Yao R, Li J 2003. Towards global analysis of mosquito chorion proteins through sequential extraction, two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Proteomics 3: 2036-2043.