The effect of constant darkness on the content of adipokinetic hormone, adipokinetic response and walking activity in macropterous females of pyrrhocoris apterus (L.)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 248-255

  Kodrík, Dalibor ^a   Socha, Radomír ^a   Syrová, Zdeňka ^a   Zemek, Rostislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adipokinetic hormone; Corpora cardiaca; Lipid mobilization; Locomotion; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS;

EID: 85071974559     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2005.00455.x     Document Type: Article

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