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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Characterisation of moult-inhibiting activities of sinus glands of the spiny lobster, jasus lalandii
Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Volume 39, No. 2, Year 2001
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We have characterised the major circulating ecdysteroid in the South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii, as 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) by means of chromatographic separation and an enzyme immunoassay (EIA). The titre of ecdysteroids in the haemolymph, as quantified by EIA, varied greatly during the moult cycle: it was highest in premoult and lowest in postmoult stages. A significant decrease in ecdysteroid levels was measured shortly before ecdysis. Since the major circulating ecdysteroid in J. lalandii is apparently 20E, which arises from peripheral 20-hydroxylation of ecdysone, we concluded that the Y-organs of this spiny lobster are synthesising ecdysone or/and 3-dehydroecdysone. In order to establish an in vitro assay with which to characterise moult-inhibiting hormone (MIH) activity in the sinus gland, we have incubated Y-organs from J. lalandii in vitro in the presence of crude extracts of homospecific sinus glands and measured the secreted ecdysteroid titres by EIA. Our experiments show that only Y-organs from animals in the inter- and premoult stages are negatively influenced by these extracts; Y-organs from postmoult J. lalandii were not inhibited. The synthesis of ecdysteroids in vitro from Y-organs of intermoult J. lalandii was inhibited by extracts of sinus glands in a dose-dependent manner: doses from 0.002 to 1 sinus gland equivalent were inhibitory; the highest inhibition (53%) was obtained with the highest dose. © 2001 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Marco, Heather G.
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Blais, Catherine
France, Paris
École Normale Supérieure
Soyez, Daniel
France, Paris
École Normale Supérieure
Gáde, Gerd
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Statistics
Citations: 11
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 2
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Doi:
10.1080/07924259.2001.9652473
ISSN:
07924259