Soldier morphogenesis in the damp-wood termite is regulated by the insulin signaling pathway

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 320, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 295-306

  Hattori, Akiko ^a   Sugime, Yasuhiro ^a   Sasa, Chifune ^a   Miyakawa, Hitoshi ^a,b   Ishikawa, Yuki ^a,c   Miyazaki, Satoshi ^a,d   Okada, Yasukazu ^a,e   Cornette, Richard ^a,f   Lavine, Laura Corley ^g   Emlen, Douglas J ^h   Koshikawa, Shigeyuki ^a,i   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOOD;

ANIMALS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSULIN; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOOD;

HEXAPODA; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; ISOPTERA; TERMOPSIDAE;

EID: 84879042212     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22501     Document Type: Article

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