Circadian regulation of a daily rhythm of release of prothoracicotropic hormone from the brain-retrocerebral complex of Rhodnius prolixus (hemiptera) during larval-adult development

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 123-129

  Vafopoulou, X ^a   Steel, C G H ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ECDYSTEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HEMIPTERA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLTING; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029989172     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0053     Document Type: Article

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