Juvenile Hormone titre and vitellogenin gene expression related to ovarian development in primary reproductives compared with nymphs and nymphoid reproductives of the termite Reticulitermes speratus

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-58

  Maekawa, Kiyoto ^a   Ishitani, Kyoko ^a   Gotoh, Hiroki ^b   Cornette, Richard ^c   Miura, Toru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Juvenile Hormone; Nymphoid; Ovary; Queen; Termite; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

COLONY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LABORATORY METHOD; OVIPOSITION; PROTEIN; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; TERMITE;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 77954447916     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2009.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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