Morphological and functional aspects of volatile-producing glands in bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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2005-01-01
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Da cruz-landim, Carminda [UNESP]
Abdalla, FÁBIO CAMARGO [UNESP]
Gracioli-vitti, Luciana Fioretti [UNESP]
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Abstract In this paper we focus on the occurrence and morphological aspects of exocrine glands in several bee species. Morphology of head labial, mandibular, Dufour, and abdominal tegumentar glands was investigated under light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Most of such glands present cells with cytoplasm homogeneous and acidophilic, or contain small apparently empty vacuoles. The cytoplasm cells' ultrastructure showed a well developed smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many polymorphic mitochondria, rare Golgi, lipid droplets, myelin figures, and many basal and apical plasma membrane infoldings. All these results are discussed in the text. © 2017 Wiley. All rights reserved.
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Apidae, Bees, Class I cell, Class III cells, Exocrine glands, Pheromones
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Insect Science, v. 12, n. 6, p. 467-480, 2005.