The dark-color inducing neuropeptide, [His 7]-corazonin, causes a shift in morphometic characteristics towards the gregarious phase in isolated-reared (solitarious) Locusta migratoria

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1065-1074

  Tanaka, Seiji ^a   Zhu, Dao Hong ^a,c   Hoste, Bruno ^b   Breuer, Michael ^b  

^a IIAS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Albinism; Corazonin; Locusta migratoria; Morphometrics; Phase polymorphism

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA;

EID: 0036851318     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(02)00199-3     Document Type: Article

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