title: Effects of pyrimidine-2-thiol on the ovarian histology of Epilachna vigintioctopunctata (Fabr.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).
abstract: The telotrophic ovary of Epilachna vigintioctopunctata is composed of 32-40 ovarioles, each with an apical germarium and a basal vitellarium. The germarium encloses mononucleate and binucleate trophocytes, prefollicular tissue and oogonia, while the vitellarium contains 2-5 oocytes arranged in order of maturity. Definite nutritive cords are absent. When females are exposed to 75 mg 4,4,6-trimethyl-1h, 4H-pyrimidine-2-thiol by contact, the trophocytes and the follicular epithelial cells disintegrate to form dark-staining clumps and thus fail to supply nourishment to the developing oocytes, which consequently remain yolk-less and are ultimately reduced to shrunken masses.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sandhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002629:Chemosterilants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D010053:Ovary / Q000187:drug effects; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D002629:Chemosterilants; D011743:Pyrimidines; C064001:pyrimidine-2-thiol