. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. uscles piece-meal, but that theblood corpuscles (amoebocytes) which creep in among the fibrilloe takeup spontaneously the dissolving muscle substances and convert thesewithin the cytoplasm into fat globules and albuminoid granules. Thusthe amoebocytes become adipocytes and replace the muscle fibrillae (Fig. 5 50 ANTS. 26, B). Somewhat later the amoebocytes discharge the fat globulesand albuminoid granules from their cytoplasm into the blood plasma,which from being a limpid liquid assumes a more granular appearanceas it becomes charged with mor
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. uscles piece-meal, but that theblood corpuscles (amoebocytes) which creep in among the fibrilloe takeup spontaneously the dissolving muscle substances and convert thesewithin the cytoplasm into fat globules and albuminoid granules. Thusthe amoebocytes become adipocytes and replace the muscle fibrillae (Fig. 5 50 ANTS. 26, B). Somewhat later the amoebocytes discharge the fat globulesand albuminoid granules from their cytoplasm into the blood plasma,which from being a limpid liquid assumes a more granular appearanceas it becomes charged with more and more of the metabolized productsof sarcolysis. Kventually nothing remains of the muscles but theirsheaths, and the thoracic tracheae become greatly enlarged, whichaccounts for the floating of the insect in liquid and the emission of airbubbles when the thorax is pricked under water (Fig. 26, D ). The fattyand albuminoid substances derived from the histolyzed wing-musclesare carried in the blood to the abdomen, where they are taken up by the.
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