Interplay between insulin signaling, juvenile hormone, and vitellogenin regulates maternal effects on polyphenism in ants

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

Volumn 110, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 11050-11055

  Libbrecht, Romain ^a,b   Corona, Miguel ^a,c   Wende, Franziska ^d   Azevedo, Dihego O ^e   Serrão, Jose E ^e   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; JUVENILE HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POGONOMYRMEX RUGOSUS; POLYPHENISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECDYSTEROIDS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HIBERNATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INSULIN; JUVENILE HORMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VITELLOGENINS;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX RUGOSUS;

EID: 84879730929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221781110     Document Type: Article

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