Juvenile hormone III titers and regulation of soldier caste in coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 561-566

  Park, Yong Ihl ^a   Raina, Ashok K ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Formosan subterranean termite; JH titer; Juvenile hormone III; Methoprene; Social insects

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; JUVENILE HORMONE III; SESQUITERPENE;

HORMONE; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; MALE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SESQUITERPENES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 2942570074     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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