TY  - BOOK
AU  - Booth,T.F.
TI  - Wax lipid secretion and ultrastructural development in the egg-waxing (Gené's)organ in ixodid ticks
KW  - GENE'S ORGAN
KW  - CATTLE TICKS
KW  - OVIPOSITION
KW  - DERMAL GLANDS
KW  - EGG WAX
N2  - Gené's organ, the egg-waxing organ of ticks, performs an essential function in females by coating the eggs with a waterproofing layer during oviposition, which prevents desiccation of the embryo, ensuring its viability. The organ is a target for control agents and a potential site of virus replication involving trans-oval transmission of arboviruses. The organ is a complex dermal gland, developed to an elaborate degree. The external appendage, the horns, is an evertable balloon-like cuticular sac which manipulates the eggs and coats them in wax. Wax passes through pores in the cuticle from the internal, sub-cuticular lumen. Gené's organ develops in synchrony with oogenesis and oviposition. This paper describes the development of the gland cells and formation of the intra-cuticular lumen and its ultrastructure during engorgement and oviposition in ixodid ticks. The structural basis for wax secretion in Gené's organ is also described
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QntBgfyumNt2HG08_7Vmvlb7wS2bYpOg/view?usp=drivesdk
ER  -