Ecdysteroid titer, ovary status, and dominance in adult worker and queen bumble bees (Bombus terrestris)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1033-1040

  Bloch, Guy ^a   Hefetz, Abraham ^b   Hartfelder, Klaus ^c  

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

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bumble bee; Dominance; Ecdysteroids; Oogenesis; Regulation of reproduction

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 0034079553     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00214-0     Document Type: Article

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