Effects of hatchling body colour and rearing density on body colouration in last-stadium nymphs of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-94

  Maeno, Koutaro ^a,b   Tanaka, Seiji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body colour polyphenism; Crowding effects; Density dependent phase polyphenism; Locusts; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HATCHING; LOCUST; OVERCROWDING; POPULATION DENSITY;

HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 33947364845     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2006.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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