Socio-environmental and endocrine influences on developmental and caste-regulatory gene expression in the eusocial termite Reticulitermes flavipes

BACKGROUND: Strict regulation of caste differentiation, at the molecular level, is thought to be important to maintain social structure in insect societies. Previously, a number of extrinsic and intrinsic factors have been shown to influence caste composition in termite colonies. One important facto...

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Autores principales: Tarver, Matthew R, Zhou, Xuguo, Scharf, Michael E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-11-28

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-11-28

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