A Juvenile Hormone analogue enhances homosexual behaviour in female-deprived males of the migratory locust

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-294

  Guershon, Moshe ^a   Ayali, Amir ^a   Golenser, Esther ^b   Pener, Meir Paul ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Homosexual behaviour; Locusta migratoria migratorioides; Precopulatory mounting; Pyriproxyfen

Indexed keywords

COLONY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LOCUST; MALE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES;

HEXAPODA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA MIGRATORIOIDES;

EID: 84865297312     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00815.x     Document Type: Article

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