Effects of social conditions on juvenile hormone mediated reproductive development in Bombus terrestris workers

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 257-267

  Bloch, Guy ^a   Borst, David W ^b   Huang, Z Y ^c   Robinson, Gene E ^c   Hefetz, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

aggressive behaviour; Apidae; Bombus terrestris; bumble bees; corpora allata; Juvenile Hormone; queen control; regulation of reproduction

Indexed keywords

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

BUMBLEBEE; JUVENILE HORMONE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; WORKER;

EID: 0030301545     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1996.tb00863.x     Document Type: Article

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