Rates of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis and degradation during reproductive development and diapause in the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-276

  Taub Montemayor, Tina E ^a   Dahm, Karl H ^b   Bhaskaran, Govindan ^b   Rankin, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Corpora allata; JH; JH esterase; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0030723791     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1997.tb01168.x     Document Type: Article

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