Endocrine signatures underlying plasticity in postembryonic development of a lower termite, Cryptotermes secundus (Kalotermitidae)

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-277

  Korb, Judith ^a   Hoffmann, Katharina ^a   Hartfelder, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; JUVENILE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLT; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; STEROID; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE GLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ANIMALS; ECDYSTEROIDS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ISOPTERA; MORPHOGENESIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

CRYPTOTERMES SECUNDUS; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 65549153149     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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