Juvenile hormone titers, juvenile hormone biosynthesis, ovarian development and social environment in Bombus terrestris

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-57

  Bloch, Guy ^a   Borst, David W ^b   Huang, Zhi Yong ^c   Robinson, Gene E ^c   Cnaani, Jonathan ^a   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

Corpora allata; Dominance; Hymenoptera; Juvenile hormone; Oogenesis

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYMENOPTERA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 0033990510     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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