Abstract：
:Catabolism of excess dietary protein by Aedes aegypti was investigated during larval development, during and after metamorphosis. Activity profiles were established for xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH, uricotelic pathway) and arginase (ureotelic pathway). Both enzymes are active at all times during the life-cycle. During the aquatic larval and pupal instars, XDH and arginase activities increase with body size. Maximal activities of these two enzyme systems coincide with the time of metamorphic restructuring.Both enzymes are found in the fatbody tissue: XDH activity is found in 80% of the tissue, while arginase activity is distributed equally between abdominal fatbody and the thorax. This might indicate a role for arginase other than catabolic, such as energy metabolism.Arginase activity is high in the aquatic instars and low in sugar-fed females but increases after blood-feeding. XDH activity, also high in larvae and pupae, increases markedly after a blood meal.Larval excretion is characterized by the ureotelic pathway. The pupae as closed systems excrete neither uric acid nor urea; urate accumulates during larval and pupal periods, is conserved throughout metamorphosis, and is finally voided with the meconium by the teneral imago. This presents a form of transient storage-excretion.
journal_name
J Insect Physioljournal_title
Journal of insect physiologyauthors
von Dungern P,Briegel Hdoi
10.1016/s0022-1910(00)00096-2keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2001-02-01 00:00:00pages
131-141issue
2eissn
0022-1910issn
1879-1611pii
S0022191000000962journal_volume
47pub_type
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