Juvenile hormone paces behavioral development in the adult worker honey bee

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-14

  Sullivan, Joseph P ^a   Jassim, Omar ^b   Fahrbach, Susan E ^a   Robinson, Gene E ^a  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

Allatectomy; Behavioral development; Corpora allata; Division of labor; Foraging behavior

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; HONEYBEE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034093999     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1552     Document Type: Article

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