Sensilla and secretory glands in the antennae of a primitive ant: Dinoponera lucida (formicidae: ponerinae)

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 885-890

  Maeques Silva, Solange ^a   Matiello Guss, Cirlei P ^a   Delabie, Jacques H C ^b   Mariano, Cléa S F ^b   Zanuncio, José C ^a   Serrão, José Eduardo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UPA Laboratorio de Mirmecologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Glands; Insect; Morphology; Sensilla

Indexed keywords

CELLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL RELEASE; CLASS I; FEMALE WORKERS; FORMICIDAE; GLAND; GLAND CELLS; INSECT; PONERINAE; SECRETORY GLANDS; SENSILLAE;

CYTOLOGY;

POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; INSECT CELL; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECRETORY CELL; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

DINOPONERA LUCIDA; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA; PONERINAE;

EID: 33750732668     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20356     Document Type: Article

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