Mechanisms regulating caste differentiation in an aphid social system

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-41

  Shibao, Harunobu ^a   Kutsukake, Mayako ^b   Matsuyama, Shigeru ^c   Fukatsu, Takema ^b   Shimada, Masakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density; Feedback mechanism; Polyphenism; Social aphid; Soldier caste; Soldier differentiation; Tuberaphis styraci

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; TUBERAPHIS STYRACI;

EID: 72949114376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.1.9721     Document Type: Short Survey

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