Physiology of digestion in Gerris spinolae Leth. (Hydrometridae: Heteroptera)

Saxena, P.

Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 11(2): 132-133

1973


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5189
PMID: 4782375
Document Number: 61567
The midgut of freshly fed Gerris spinolae, a pond skater which sucks the haemolymph of insects, had trypsin, amylase, invertase and maltase. With the exception of amylase the same enzymes were present in the hindgut. Starvation for 2 days suppressed enzyme secretion. The pH of the gut and accessory glands was between 7.1 and 5.6. The main lobe only of the salivary glands produced trypsin.

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