Changes in juvenile hormone synthesis in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes during development of soldiers and neotenic reproductives from groups of isolated workers

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 492-500

  Elliott, Karen L ^a   Stay, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Juvenile hormone; Reticulitermes flavipes; Social insects; Termites

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

HORMONE; JUVENILE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CORPUS ALLATUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CORPORA ALLATA; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 38749101308     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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