Induction of Follicle Separation in the Mosquito by Physiological Amounts of Ecdysterone

Abstract
Physiological quantities of the molting hormone, ecdysterone,injected into female Aedes aegypti prematurely induced separation ofincipient follicles in the ovarioles, an event that normally occursonly in blood-fed females. It was possible to stimulate thismorphological event with physiological amounts of hormone bymimicking, with two injections, the timing of normal increases inendogenous hormone of blood-fed females.