Differential impacts of juvenile hormone, soldier head extract and alternate caste phenotypes on host and symbiont transcriptome composition in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

BACKGROUND: Termites are highly eusocial insects and show a division of labor whereby morphologically distinct individuals specialize in distinct tasks. In the lower termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Rhinotermitidae), non-reproducing individuals form the worker and soldier castes, which specialize in...

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Autores principales: Sen, Ruchira, Raychoudhury, Rhitoban, Cai, Yunpeng, Sun, Yijun, Lietze, Verena-Ulrike, Boucias, Drion G, Scharf, Michael E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23870282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-491

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23870282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-491

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