Calliphora vicina
Calcium Absorption by the Midgut of the Blowfly, Calliphora Vicina
... The isolated midgut of the adult blowfly, Calliphora vicina, can be maintained under internal perfusion for over 6h, and calcium absorption measured by including 45Ca in the perfusing sa[r] ...
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Diversity of transposable elements and repeats in a 600 kb region of the fly Calliphora vicina
... The Calliphoridae is a monophyletic family of calyptrate Muscomorpha (Diptera). These flies are of economic importance as a cause of myiasis in humans and animals, and as vectors of pathogens causing dysentery and other ...
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Temperature requirements for the growth of immature stages of blowflies species, Chrysomya albiceps and Calliphora vicina, (Diptera:Calliphoridae) under laboratory conditions
... 2001). Calliphora vicina is a member of the family Calliphoridae which is considered as a eusynanthropic species with endophilic tendencies and it is mostly seen during the cold months ...
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Flight motor driven respiratory airflow increases tracheal oxygen to nearly atmospheric level in blowflies (Calliphora vicina)
... in Calliphora vicina Robineau- Desvoidy 1830 also induce a ventilatory gas exchange, questioning the suggestion that diffusion alone provides sufficient gas ...
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Cross generation plasticity in cold hardiness is associated with diapause, but not the non diapause developmental pathway, in the blow fly Calliphora vicina
... fly Calliphora vicina (Robineau-Desvoidy 1830), the adult female (sensitive) stage experiences the CDL to induce diapause, whilst diapause initiation does not occur until the third larval instar of the ...
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Fluorescence measurements of serotonin induced V ATPase dependent pH changes at the luminal surface in salivary glands of the blowfly Calliphora vicina
... We conclude that microfluorometric measurements using HAF are an elegant and direct method for monitoring the kinetics of luminal surface pH changes in salivary glands of the blowfly Calliphora vicina. This ...
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Rhodopsin patterning in central photoreceptor cells of the blowfly Calliphora vicina: cloning and characterization of Calliphora rhodopsins Rh3, Rh5 and Rh6
... blowfly Calliphora vicina, represent widely recognised model systems for the analysis of various aspects of vision, for example, eye development, photoreceptor differentiation, visual transduction and ...
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Evaporation dynamics of tarsal liquid footprints in flies (Calliphora vicina)and beetles (Coccinella septempunctata)
... Insect tarsal adhesive structures secrete a thin layer of fluid into the contact area. It was previously reported that the presence of this fluid significantly increases adhesion on various substrata. Previous data ...
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Structure of the thoracic spiracular valves and their contribution to unidirectional gas exchange in flying blowflies Calliphora vicina
... Blowflies ( Calliphora vicina , Robineau-Desvoidy 1830) were captured from the field. They were examined immediately, or the F1 offspring of one vital female was bred and the adults were used after the ...
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Neuromuscular control of aerodynamic forces and moments in the blowfly, Calliphora vicina
... Adult male blowflies, Calliphora vicina (R.-D.), were tethered and implanted with extracellular electrodes as described previously (Balint and Dickinson, 2001). Male flies were selected from a laboratory ...
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Kauer, Isabella (2016): Characterization of prothoracic neck motor neurons in the blowfly Calliphora vicina. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... Figure 5: The neck motor system of Calliphora. A: A dorsal view of a fly, the red square indicating the extent of the nervous system shown in B. B: Light microscopic image of a Calliphora vicina ...
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The correlation between wing kinematics and steering muscle activity in the blowfly Calliphora vicina
... blowfly Calliphora vicina, the timing of individual basalare muscle spikes within a single wingbeat cycle can have clear cycle-by- cycle effects on wingbeat kinematics (Tu and Dickinson, ...
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Influence of periodic heartbeat reversal and abdominal movements on hemocoelic and tracheal pressure in resting blowflies Calliphora vicina
... unclear. A controversy about the flow direction of high-frequency and low-frequency heart pulses has carried on until today. In a previous study on D. melanogaster and D. hydei I showed that the backward pulses have the ...
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Periodic heartbeat reversals cause cardiogenic inspiration and expiration with coupled spiracle leakage in resting blowflies, Calliphora vicina
... in Calliphora vicina and the experimental ...C. vicina showing the tracheal system with the projection of the lateral spiracles (orange) and position of the sensors on the punctured dorsum above the ...
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X ray computed tomography study of the flight adapted tracheal system in the blowfly Calliphora vicina, analysing the ventilation mechanism and flow directing valves
... Fig. 4. Micro-computed tomographs of the anterior body of fixed C. vicina at the level of the mesothoracic spiracle, revealing the separate offshoots of the thoracic and the cephalic tracheae. Grey, tissues; ...
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MODULATION OF NEGATIVE WORK OUTPUT FROM A STEERING MUSCLE OF THE BLOWFLY CALLIPHORA VICINA
... preclude the generation of net positive work and power at wing-beat frequency. However, the frequency at which the work output of the b1 becomes negative lies below the limiting frequency for positive work output by ...
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Gaze characteristics of freely walking blowflies Calliphora vicina in a goal directed task
... As indicated in Fig. 7C, walking flies rotated their head to the right, while they were translating to the left, and vice versa, throughout a stride cycle. As a result, the yaw rotation axis of the head and, thus, of the ...
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Free Amino Acids in the Haemocytes and Plasma of the Larva of Calliphora Vicina
... Amino acid levels in haemolymph samples from larvae of Calliphora at various stages of yrd instar prior to pupariation Whole blood pupariation h Taurine Aspartate Glutamate Proline Glyci[r] ...
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Structure and properties of the glandular surface in the digestive zone of the pitcher in the carnivorous plant Nepenthes ventrata and its role in insect trapping and retention
... The two insect species used in friction tests were selected for similarity in size (values are means ± S . D .; fly body length=9.33±0.44·mm, n=15; bug body length=9.30±0.60·mm, n=15) and weight (fly mass=44.58±10.67·mg, ...
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Determination of capacity of otoy (xanthosoma sagitifolium) consumption in juvenile galapagos tortoises (chelonoidis guntheri and chelonoidis vicina) Bred in captivity on isabela island – galapagos
... Chelonoidis vicina) were distributed in 5 groups, aged between 1 and 4 years, to each group was administered 1, 2, 3 and 4 kg of otoy during the whole investigation, until standardizing the consumption in ...
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