Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Influence of Environmental Factors On the Oviposition of Lymnaea Stagnalis (L.) Under Laboratory Conditions

The Influence of Environmental Factors On the Oviposition of Lymnaea Stagnalis (L.) Under... THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE OVIPOSITION OF LYMNAEA STAGNALIS (L.) UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS by W.J.VAN DER STEEN (Zoological Department, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 404 I. INTRODUCTION The freshwater basommatophoran pulmonates generally show a high fecundity. In the field large numbers of egg capsules are laid during the reproductive season. When kept in the laboratory, several species can reproduce throughout the year. Under suitable laboratory condi- tions, Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) can produce up to I egg capsule every two days on the average, each capsule containing up to 250 eggs. During the last decades the interest in this group has increased con- siderably, not in the least due to the fact that many of them are inter- mediate hosts ofimportant trematod parasites of animals and man (e.g., Bilharzia). In this laboratory special attention is paid to the structure and function of the reproductive organs of L. stagnalis, and to the relations between these organs and neurosecretory centres in the brain. 405 For the experimental study of this topic, a better knowledge of the oviposition activity, especially with regard to effects of the environment in the laboratory, would be advantageous. Indeed, little information about this point http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie (in 1967 continued as Netherlands Journal of Zoology) Brill

The Influence of Environmental Factors On the Oviposition of Lymnaea Stagnalis (L.) Under Laboratory Conditions

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/the-influence-of-environmental-factors-on-the-oviposition-of-lymnaea-rUlGOiflVR

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1966 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0365-5164
eISSN
1875-3019
DOI
10.1163/036551667X00083
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE OVIPOSITION OF LYMNAEA STAGNALIS (L.) UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS by W.J.VAN DER STEEN (Zoological Department, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 404 I. INTRODUCTION The freshwater basommatophoran pulmonates generally show a high fecundity. In the field large numbers of egg capsules are laid during the reproductive season. When kept in the laboratory, several species can reproduce throughout the year. Under suitable laboratory condi- tions, Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) can produce up to I egg capsule every two days on the average, each capsule containing up to 250 eggs. During the last decades the interest in this group has increased con- siderably, not in the least due to the fact that many of them are inter- mediate hosts ofimportant trematod parasites of animals and man (e.g., Bilharzia). In this laboratory special attention is paid to the structure and function of the reproductive organs of L. stagnalis, and to the relations between these organs and neurosecretory centres in the brain. 405 For the experimental study of this topic, a better knowledge of the oviposition activity, especially with regard to effects of the environment in the laboratory, would be advantageous. Indeed, little information about this point

Journal

Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie (in 1967 continued as Netherlands Journal of Zoology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1966

There are no references for this article.