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Flight activity of the blowflies, Calliphora vomitoria and Lucilia sericata, in the dark

Forensic Science International, 2007
Many species of insects are able to fly at night or in very low light intensities. The question of whether calliphorid blowflies are also able to do this to locate a corpse and oviposit nocturnally is of considerable forensic importance. However, to date studies of this behaviour have been contradictory.
Wooldridge, J, Scrase, L, Wall, R
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Free fatty acids in the cuticular and internal lipids of Calliphora vomitoria and their antimicrobial activity

Journal of Insect Physiology, 2013
The cuticular and internal lipid composition in Calliphora vomitoria larvae, pupae, and male and female adults was studied. The free fatty acid (FA) compositions of the lipids were chemically characterized using gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-electron impact mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
Marek, Gołębiowski, Magdalena, Cerkowniak, Mieczysława I, Boguś, Emilia, Włóka, Małgorzata, Dawgul, Wojciech, Kamysz, Piotr, Stepnowski   +6 more
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Calliphora vomitoria: both the beauty and the beast

Journal of Pest Science
Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) (Diptera Calliphoridae) is a blowfly spread throughout Europe, several Asian countries, across North and Central America, and, to a lesser degree, in Africa. It is commonly known as the blue bottle fly or orange-bearded blue bottle due to some of its morphological features.
Farina, Priscilla, Conti, Barbara, Canale, Angelo, Lucchi, Andrea, Vanin, Stefano, Benelli, Giovanni   +5 more
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The effects of larval crowding and food type on the size and development of the blowfly, Calliphora vomitoria

Forensic Science International, 2006
The use of entomological evidence in the estimation of the post mortem interval (PMI) often depends on the size and developmental stage of blowfly larvae collected from a corpse. Therefore, factors which can have an effect on the larval size and growth rate can have implications for reliable PMI determinations.
Sarah, Ireland, Bryan, Turner
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The Removal of Sulphate by the Excretory Apparatus of the Blowfly Calliphora Vomitoria

Journal of Experimental Biology, 1975
ABSTRACT The excretion of sulphate by the isolated Malpighian tubules of Calliphora vomitoria has been investigated. Contrary to expectation, it was found that the isolated tubules are freely permeable to sulphate. The rate of sulphate secretion is comparable to the rates of secretion of both phosphate and chloride.
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Immunochemical characterization of gastrin/cholecystokinin-like peptides in the brain of the blowfly, Calliphora vomitoria

General and Comparative Endocrinology, 1981
Gastrin/cholecystokinin-like material in the brains of the blowfly, Calliphora vomitoria, was extracted with boiling water and purified by immunoaffinity adsorption to a C-terminal-specific gastrin antiserum. The material eluted in two peaks after separation by gel filtration on Sephadex G-50.
G J, Dockray, H, Duve, A, Thorpe
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The Sulfakinins of the Blowfly Calliphora Vomitoria. Peptide Isolation, Gene Cloning and Expression Studies

European Journal of Biochemistry, 1995
The nonapeptide, Phe-Asp-Asp-Tyr(SO3)-Gly-His-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 was isolated from heads of the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria. Designated callisulfakinin I, the peptide is identical to the earlier known drosulfakinin I of Drosophila melanogaster and to neosulfakinin I of Neobellieria bullata. It belongs to the sulfakinin family, all known members of which (
H, Duve, A, Thorpe, A G, Scott, A H, Johnsen, J F, Rehfeld, E, Hines, P D, East   +6 more
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Induction of ACTH- and TNF-α-like molecules in the hemocytes of Calliphora vomitoria (Insecta, Diptera)

Tissue and Cell, 1996
Three basic cell types are described in the hemolymph of newly enclosed adult Calliphora vomitoria: prohemocytes, plasmatocytes, and granular cells. In addition, anucleate cellular fragments with some inclusions are observed. Cell division is found only in the prohemocytes. Plasmatocytes and granular cells are capable of in vitro bacterial phagocytosis
FRANCHINI, Antonella, Miyan JA, OTTAVIANI, Enzo   +2 more
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Muscle growth and protein synthesis in the puparia of Calliphora vomitoria

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1976
Abstract The effects of cycloheximide on the development of the dorsal longitudinal flight muscle of 3- to 5-day-old puparia of Calliphora vomitoria have been investigated. One μg of cycloheximide injected into the puparia reduced the incorporation of 14 C phenylalanine and lysine into protein to 5 and 8 per cent of their normal levels.
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Effects of protein synthesis inhibitors on muscle growth in the puparium of Calliphora vomitoria

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1978
Methods are described for measuring the length and the myofibril diameter of the sixth dorsal longitudinal flight muscle of 7-, 8- and 9-day old puparia of C. vomitoria. The muscle fibres are divided up into nuclear deliminated areas and the number of myofibrils in one of these areas is found to be constant.
D.F. Houlihan, J.R.L. Newton
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