Juvenile hormone levels reflect social opportunities in the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Smith, Adam R ^a   Kapheim, Karen M ^a,b,d   Pérez Ortega, Betzi ^a   Brent, Colin S ^c   Wcislo, William T ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine physiology; Eusociality; Juvenile hormone; Megalopta genalis; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYMENOPTERA; IMAGO; INSECT CASTE; INSECT SOCIETY; MEGALOPTA GENALIS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84871930919     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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