Caste differentiation responses of two sympatric Reticulitermes termite species to juvenile hormone homologs and synthetic juvenoids in two laboratory assays

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 346-354

  Scharf, M E ^a   Ratliff, C R ^a   Hoteling, J T ^a   Pittendrigh, B R ^a   Bennett, G W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydroprene; Intercaste; Isoptera; Pyriproxyfen; Rhinotermitidae

Indexed keywords

CASTE; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGY; TERMITE;

ARTHROPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES TIBIALIS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0346270480     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-003-0690-4     Document Type: Article

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