Identification of a pheromone regulating caste differentiation in termites

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12963-12968

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Himuro, Chihiro ^a   Yokoi, Tomoyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Yuuka ^a   Vargo, Edward L ^b   Keller, Laurent ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Egg volatile; Honest signal; Inhibitory pheromone; Queen pheromone; Social insect

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 1 BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID BUTYL ESTER; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSECT CASTE; INSECT SOCIETY; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT);

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; ISOPTERA; MALE; PHEROMONES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLATILIZATION;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 77955649683     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004675107     Document Type: Article

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