Food availability controls the onset of metamorphosis in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 173-180

  Shafiei, Majid ^a   Moczek, Armin P ^a   Nijhout, H Frederik ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental cues; Dung beetle; Larval development; Onthophagus; Regulation of pupation; Timing of metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; PUPATION;

AMPHIBIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0034948551     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2001.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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