Juvenile hormone profiles of worker honey bees, Apis mellifera, during normal and accelerated behavioral development

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-249

  Jassim, Omar ^a   Huang, Zachary Y ^a   Robinson, Gene E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Behavioral development; Division of labor; Juvenile hormone; Radioimmunoassay

Indexed keywords

INSECT HORMONE;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HONEYBEE; HORMONE; JUVENILE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENT; HEMOLYMPH; HONEYBEE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; WORKER;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0034006001     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00176-6     Document Type: Article

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