Compound eye development during caste differentiation in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Zoological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 699-705

  Maekawa, Kiyoto ^a   Mizuno, Sayaka ^a   Koshikawa, Shigeyuki ^b   Miura, Toru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Compound eye; Neotenic reproductive; Postembryonic development; Social insect; Termite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND EYE; FEMALE; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; ISOPTERA; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; FEMALE; GONADS; ISOPTERA; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 51549109323     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.25.699     Document Type: Article

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