Hormones in the field: Evolutionary endocrinology of juvenile hormone and ecdysteroids in field populations of the wing-dimorphic cricket Gryllus firmus

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 592-606

  Zera, Anthony J ^a   Zhao, Zangwu ^a   Kaliseck, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; JUVENILE HORMONE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICKET; DISPERSAL; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HORMONE; JUVENILE; STEROID; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GRYLLIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECDYSTEROIDS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; WING;

GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS FIRMUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548542635     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521803     Document Type: Article

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