Hormonal modulation of larval begging and growth in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-77

  Crook, Tara C ^a   Flatt, Thomas ^b   Smiseth, Per T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

begging; burying beetle; growth; insects; juvenile hormone; Nicrophorus vespilloides; signalling of need

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LARVA; SIGNALING;

AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 37349130933     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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