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Journal of Experimental Biology 46,487-490 (1967)
Published by Company of Biologists 1967

Non-Dependence of the Saturation of Depot Fat on Temperature and Photoperiod in a Hibernating Mosquito

EMILE VAN HANDEL ¹

¹ Entomological Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Vero Beach, Florida

1. The fatty acid composition of the triglycerides synthesized from sugar was determined in female Culex pipiens, a mosquito that overwinters in the adult stage.

2. The fat had approximately the same composition when synthesized at 5, 10, 20, or 30° C.

3. At each of these temperatures the fat composition was the same, whether a photo-period of 8 hr. or of 14 hr. was used.

4. The main fatty acids were palmitic (30%), palmitoleic (50%) and oleic acid (15%).

5. These results do not support a hypothesis that adipose tissue of poikilothermic animals synthesizes a more unsaturated fat under winter conditions.

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