Reduced juvenile hormone synthesis in mosquitoes with low teneral reserves reduces ovarian previtellogenic development in Aedes aegypti

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2685-2690

  Caroci, Abrahim S ^a   Li, Yiping ^b   Noriega, Fernando G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Corpora allata; Juvenile hormone; Mosquito; Nutrition; Ovary

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; JUVENILE HORMONE; PROTEIN;

AEDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

AEDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORPORA ALLATA; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN; JUVENILE HORMONES; LIPID METABOLISM; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 3543025169     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01093     Document Type: Article

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