Juvenile hormone synthesis as related to egg development in neotenic reproductives of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes, with observations on urates in the fat body

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-110

  Elliott, Karen L ^a   Stay, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile hormone; Neotenic reproductives; Reticulitermes flavipes; Termite; Urate; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; URATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; ISOPTERA; NEOTENY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 34247531353     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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