Immunomarking reveals food flow and feeding relationships in the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-182

  Buczkowski, Grzegorz ^a   Wang, Changlu ^a   Bennett, Gary ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunomarking; Marking techniques; Reticulitermes flavipes; Termite; Trophallaxis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

BIOMARKER; COLONIAL ORGANISM; IMMUNOASSAY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERMITE; TROPHALLAXIS; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOPTERA; LARVA; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISOPTERA; LARVA; NYMPH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ISOPTERA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34047141514     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[173:IRFFAF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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