Seasonal variation of juvenile hormone titers of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus (Rhinotermitidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 557-562

  Liu, Yuxiu ^a   Henderson, Gregg ^a,b   Mao, Lixin ^a   Laine, Roger A ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpora allata; Pheromonal action; Proximate mechanisms; Reproductives; Soldier proportions

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLDIER CASTE; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; CUPRESSUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 20344363914     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-34.3.557     Document Type: Article

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