Frontal-pore formation during soldier differentiation induced by juvenile hormone III in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 437-447

  Watanabe, Dai ^a   Maekawa, Kiyoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 52249116586     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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