Fine structure of corpora allata of castes with different rates of juvenile hormone production in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-38

  Chan, Kuen K ^a   Abel, Dean S ^a   Stay, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Castes; Electron microscopy; Glycogen; Isoptera; Rhinotermitidae

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; GLYCOGEN;

ANIMAL CASTE; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CORPUS ALLATUM; ENERGY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSECT; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SOLDIER (INSECT); WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; CORPORA ALLATA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, SMOOTH; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; MITOCHONDRIA; NEUROPEPTIDES;

BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 78649764763     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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