Neuropeptide inhibitors of juvenile hormone synthesis in the mealworm and tomato moth

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 839, Issue , 1998, Pages 450-452

  Weaver, Robert J ^a   Edwards, John P ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOTH; NONHUMAN; WORM;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0032524555     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10830.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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