Effects of diet and mating status upon corpus allatum activity, oocyte growth, and salivary gland size in the ring-legged earwig

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-40

  Rankin, Susan M ^a   Dossat, Heather B ^a   Garcia, Kathryn M ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

corpus allatum; Euborellia annulipes; follicle growth; juvenile hormone biosynthesis; salivary glands; starvation nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANISOLABIDIDAE; EUBORELLIA ANNULIPES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030999209     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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