Post-embryonic development of the reproductive system of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner)

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Effects of larval diapause and the juvenile hormone analog, fenoxycarb, on testis development and spermatogenesis in the wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

“…1) (Klowden, 2004(Klowden, , 2013. In most Lepidoptera, at the end of their larval development (pre-pupal stage), the paired kidney-shaped testes fuse into a single organ that then undergoes torsion such that pupae and adult males possess a single gonad consisting of eight twisted chambers, known as testicular follicles (TF), (Cholodkovsky, 1880;Drecktrah, 1966;Jones, 1973;LaChance & Olstad, 1988;Pereira & Santos, 2015). It has been clearly shown, at least in some species, that simultaneously with the testis Fig.…”