Advances in Insect Physiology Volume 12 This Page Intentionally Left Blank Advances in Insect Physiology edited by J. E. TREHERNE M. J. BERRIDGE and V. B. WIGGLESWORTH Department of Zoology, The University Cambridge, England Volume 12 1976 ACADEMIC PRESS LONDON NEW Y O R K S A N FRANCISCO A Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers ACADEMIC PRESS INC. (LONDON) LTD 24-28 Oval Road London NW1 US edition published by ACADEMIC PRESS INC. 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003 Copyright @ 1976 by Academic Press I n c (London) Ltd All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm or any other means, without written permission from the publishers Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-14059 ISBN: 0-12-0242 12-5 Printed in Great Britain at The Spottiswoode Ballantyne Press by William Clowes & Sons Limited London, Colchester and Beccles Contributors Fotis C. Kafatos The Biological Laboratories Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA, and Department o f Biology, University of Athens, Panepistemiopolis, Kouponia, Athens (621), Greece E. David Morgan Department of Chemistry, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England Colin F. Poole’ Department of Chemistry, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England Hugh Fraser Rowell Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Klaus Sander Biologisches Institu t I ( Z ool ogie), D er Albert-Ludw igs- Universitat, Katharinenstrasse 20, 7800 Freiburg im Breisgau, Federal Republic of Germany J. E. Steele Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London 72, Ontario, Canada Present Address: Department of Pharmacy, 7 h e University of Aston in Birmingham, Gosta Green, Birmingham 8 4 7 E T. This Page Intentionally Left Blank Contents Contributors .................... Sequential Cell Polymorphism: A Fundamental Concept in Developmental Biology FOTlS C. K A F A T O S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v . . 1 The Extraction and Determination of Ecdysones in Arthropods E. DAVID M O R G A N AND C O L I N F. POOLE . . . . . . . 17 The Cells of the Insect Neurosecretory System: Constancy, Variability, and the Concept of the Unique Identifiable Neuron HUGH FRASER R O W E L L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Specification of the Basic Body Pattern in Insect Embryogenesis K L A U S SANDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Hormonal Control of Metabolism in Insects J. E.STEELE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Subject Index 325 ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cumulative List of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 Cumulative List of Chapter Titles This Page Intentionally Left Blank Sequential Cell Polymorphism: A Fundamental Concept in D eve lo p m ent a I B io lo g y Fotis C. Kafatos The Bioiogicai Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Department of Biology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 1 Introduction 2 Cellular metamorphosis in the saturniid labial gland . 3 The sphingid labial gland: a more complex case of cellular metamorphosis 4 The cocoonase organules of the silkmoth galea: multistage sequential polymorphism in epidermal derivatives . 5 The follicular epithelial cells of silkmoths: biochemically defined sequential polymorphism 6 General discussion Acknowledgements References . . . . . . 1 2 4 . 5