Effect on mandibular length of juvenile hormones and regulation of soldier differentiation in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-314

  Tsuchiya, Mariko ^a   Watanabe, Dai ^a   Maekawa, Kiyoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Juvenile hormone III; Mandible; Presoldier; Soldier; Termite

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 50449102848     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2008.307     Document Type: Article

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