...Amir Ayali SUMMARY A possible role of the insect stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) in ecdysis was first implied in early studies reporting on internal air pressure build-up in the digestive tract and air swallowing during ecdysis. The frontal ganglion, a major component of the insect STNS...

... on the locust frontal ganglion (FG), an important player in moulting behaviour, as a previously unexplored target for ecdysis peptides. We show that application of 10 -7 mol l -1 ecdysis-triggering hormone (ETH) or 10 -7 mol l -1 and 10 -6 mol l -1 Pre-ecdysis-triggering hormone (PETH) to an isolated FG...

...Amir Ayali; Yael Zilberstein; Netta Cohen SUMMARY The frontal ganglion (FG) is part of the insect stomatogastric nervous system and is found in most insect orders. Previous work has shown that in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria , the FG constitutes a major source of innervation...

...Yael Zilberstein; Amir Ayali SUMMARY In the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria , the frontal ganglion(FG) plays a key role in control of foregut movements, and constitutes a source of innervation to the foregut dilator muscles. In this work we studied the generation and characteristics of FG...

...Carol I. Miles; Ronald Booker ABSTRACT We have examined the musculature and motor patterns of the foregut and the role of the frontal ganglion in the adult moth Manduca sexta . During adult development, the structure of the foregut changes from a simple straight tube to a pump consisting...