Permeability of Aedes aegypti larval peritrophic membrane to proteolytic enzyme.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

1979

Original Publication

Mosquito News

Volume

39

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

582-585

Contributed by

American Mosquito Control Association

Notes

Author(s) - Detra, R. L. and W. S. Romoser.

 

Abstract

Larval mosquito peritrophic membranes and contents were removed intact, ligated at both ends, washed and each tested In vitro to see if proteolytic enzyme would move from the trophic to the peritrophic space. The peritrophic membrane appears to be permeable to the mosquito's own proteolytic enzyme.

Notes

Author(s) - Detra, R. L. and W. S. Romoser.