Effects of temperature and nutrition on juvenile hormone titers of Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 732-737

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

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Formosan subterranean termite; JH titer; Proximate mechanism; Soldier proportion

Indexed keywords

COLONY STRUCTURE; HORMONE; NUTRITION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 25144450796     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0732:EOTANO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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