Artificial miniaturization causes eggs laid by crowd-reared (gregarious) desert locusts to produce green (solitarious) offspring in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 849-854

  Maeno, Koutaro ^a   Tanaka, Seiji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Desert locust; Maternal effects; Progeny body color; Progeny body size; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FENOXYCARB; JUVENILE HORMONE;

DESERT; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG SIZE; FEMALE; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LOCUST; MATERNAL EFFECT; REARING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECT; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPER; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; JUVENILE HORMONES; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; PHENYLCARBAMATES; PIGMENTATION;

LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 67650468205     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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