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Fig. 2. Internal structure of German cockroach ovaries (A: 1. follicle cells, 2. nucleus of oocyte, 3. vitellus, 4. nucleus of follicle cells; B: 1. defective vitellogenesis and formation of autophagic vacuoles, 2. degeneration of the follicular epithelium, 3. pycnotic of the nucleus of follicle cells, 4. destruction of ovariols, 5. degenerated nucleus of oocyte 6. abnormal epithelium)
Table 2 . Reproduction in an experiment on feeding pyriproxyfen to late-instar German cockroaches
Table 3. The percentage of sterility in normal and abnormal phenotypes 
Effects of a juvenoid pyriproxyfen on reproductive organ development and reproduction in German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)
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December 2007

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H. FATHPOUR

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A. NOORI

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The German cockroach, Blattella germanica, is one of the most common pest species, and is a carrier of many pathogen and allergen factors in humans. Thus, regarding public health, the control of this insect is quite important. Dietary use of hormone analogues, especially juvenoids which disrupt reproductive organ development, is a relatively new method to control cockroaches. In this study, the effect of dietary juvenoid pyriproxyfen was investigated on these insects. The control groups received a regular diet with no juvenoid and each of the treatment groups received 10, 30, 50, 100, or 300 ppm of pyriproxyfen in their diets, respectively. For each dose, 15 fifth-instar nymphs were used and the experiment was replicated three times. Each of the experimental repeats had a separate control group. The treatment period was 14 days, then the insects were fed with a regular diet until they emerged into an adult. At this stage, the treated adults were kept with an untreated opposite sex until the formation of the first egg capsule. Use of pyriproxyfen was found to be effective in inducing abnormalities in wing formation such as divergent, curly wing and giant nymphs. Furthermore, dietary use of this juvenoid caused the sterility of the insects due to incomplete development of the internal reproductive organs. Various morphologic abnormalities like deformation and degeneration were observed in the ovaries and accessory glands of sterile insects. Histological investigation of testis and ovaries in infertile insects indicated a degeneration of ovarian follicle cells, defective vitellogenesis, hypertrophy of testis walls, spermatogenesis disorder and a decrease in the numbers of spermatocyts and spermatozoa. The external genitalia of the sterile insects in both sexes were not significantly altered compared with the controls.

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... We observed morphological deformities (demorphogenesis) in the form of intermediate forms, i.e. nymphoids (Fig. 1a), giant nymphs (Fig. 1b) and adultoids (Fig. 1c) in a dose-dependent manner as a result of exogenous application of JH III and methoprene. These results were similar to those reported by other workers (Das and Gupta, 1974;Kawada et al., 1989;Fathpour et al., 2007) on the German cockroach. As stated above, amongst the four doses of JH III and methoprene tested, 5 ppm was the most effective. ...

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Juvenile Hormone-Induced Abnormality of Periplaneta americana (L.)
Effects of a juvenoid pyriproxyfen on reproductive organ development and reproduction in German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)