Morphological Changes in Soft Integument during Feeding of Adult Female Haemaphysalis longicornis(Acari: Ixodidae)

Nobuhiko OKURA; Kimiya KOGA; Takayuki MORI; Satoshi SHIRAISHI

doi:10.2300/acari.6.33

Nobuhiko OKURA, Kimiya KOGA, Takayuki MORI, Satoshi SHIRAISHI

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Keywords: adult female, Haemaphysalis longicornis, soft integument, cuticle synthesis phase, rapid expansion phase, morphological changes, copulatory stimuli

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1997 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 33-41

DOI https://doi.org/10.2300/acari.6.33

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Published: May 25, 1997 Received: September 30, 1996 Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: December 02, 1996 Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Okura N., K. Koga, T. Mori and S. Shiraishi, 1997. Morphological changes in soft integument during feeding of adult female Haemaphysalis longicornis(Acari: Ixodidae). J. Acarol. Soc.Jpn., 6(1): 33-41.
Morphological changes in a stretchable soft integument of adult female Haemaphysalis longicornis during feeding were examined using light and electron microscopy.(1)Semi-thin plastic sections of the integument stained with toluidine blue were quite suitable for distinguishing components of the endocuticle. Using this procedure, it is clearly observed that the inner endocuticle differentiates into the outer endocuticle during the cuticle synthesis phase.(2)Ultrastructural observations of epidermal cells after copulation showed decrease in frequency of exocytosis of the cuticular materials, increase in number of large secretory granules containing these materials, and reduction in the volume of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Therefore, copulatory stimuli induce to stop the exocytosis of cuticular materials at first and synthesis of these materials subsequently in the epidermal cells.

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