Eur. J. Entomol. 115: 400-417, 2018 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2018.040

Effects of larval diapause and the juvenile hormone analog, fenoxycarb, on testis development and spermatogenesis in the wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)Original article

Piotr BEBAS1, Bronislaw CYMBOROWSKI1, Michalina KAZEK2, Marta Anna POLANSKA1,*
1 Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 1 Miecznikowa Str., 02-096 Warsaw, Poland; e-mails: piotrbe@biol.uw.edu.pl, bron@biol.uw.edu.pl, martap@biol.uw.edu.pl
2 Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 51/55 Twarda Str., 00-818 Warsaw, Poland; e-mail: m.kazek@twarda.pan.pl

Facultative diapause in the wax moth, Galleria mellonella, occurs in the final larval instar. Application of juvenile hormone analogs (JHAs) to the larvae of this species has similar effects to diapause, in terms of prolonged development of the larval stages and the arrest in the metamorphosis of internal organs. Here, we focus on testes development and spermatogenesis at the end of larval development in G. mellonella, how they are affected by diapause induced by an environmental decrease in temperature to 18°C and the application of a JHA (fenoxycarb) to larvae. Because neither testis development nor spermatogenesis are described in detail for this species, we examined them in individuals not in diapause during the period from the last larval instar to the newly emerged adult and present a timetable of changes that occur in the development of testes in this species. These observations have increased the very limited data on the course of spermatogenesis in pyralid insects. We then used these data for comparative analysis of testes in larvae from two experimental groups: individuals in diapause and those treated with fenoxycarb. The results on the general morphology testes revealed obvious degenerative changes caused by fenoxycarb (but not by diapause), including testicular wall hypertrophy and disarrangement of testicular follicles. Moreover, treatment with fenoxycarb finally resulted in the disintegration of nearly all testicular cyst-containing germ cells at different stages of spermatogenesis, a situation never previously described in the literature. In contrast, the main effect of diapause on testes was merely the degeneration of spermatocytes in the proximal regions of the testicular follicles. Finally, the TUNEL analyses, revealed that the degenerative changes in germ cells were apoptotic in character in the testes of both individuals in diapause and fenoxycarb-treated males.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Galleria mellonella, wax moth, juvenile hormone analogs, larval diapause, larval testes, vas deferens, spermatogenesis

Received: September 28, 2017; Revised: June 8, 2018; Accepted: June 8, 2018; Published online: August 17, 2018  Show citation

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BEBAS, P., CYMBOROWSKI, B., KAZEK, M., & POLANSKA, M.A. (2018). Effects of larval diapause and the juvenile hormone analog, fenoxycarb, on testis development and spermatogenesis in the wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). EJE, 115, Article 400-417. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2018.040
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