Juvenile Hormone Production and Sexual Maturation in True Armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta (HAW.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): A Comparison of Migratory and Non-Migratory Populations

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 575-584

  McNeil, Jeremy N ^a   Laforge, Marlène ^a   Bédard, Caroline ^a   Cusson, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calling behavior; JH biosynthesis; Migration

Indexed keywords

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0001112172     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1996)32:3/4<575::aid-arch29>3.0.co;2-8     Document Type: Article

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