Epidermal glands in the abdomen of a basal ant dinoponera lucida formicidae: Ponerinae

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-31

  Serrão, José Eduardo ^a   Castro, Rafael Cunha A ^a   Zanuncio, José Cola ^a   Mariano, Cléa Santos Ferreira ^b   Delabie, Jacques Hubert Charles ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b Lab de Mirmecologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cuticular hydrocarbons; Hymenoptera; Insect; Oenocytes; Zoology

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CUTICULAR HYDROCARBONS; EPIDERMAL GLANDS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; MORPHO-LOGICS; OENOCYTE; PONERINAE; ZOOLOGY;

HYDROCARBONS;

HYDROCARBON;

ABDOMEN; ANT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DINOPONERA LUCIDA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PONERINAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GLAND;

DINOPONERA; DINOPONERA LUCIDA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PONERINAE;

EID: 58149510510     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20641     Document Type: Article

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