Juvenile hormone titers, ovarian status and epicuticular hydrocarbons in gynes and workers of the paper wasp Belonogaster longitarsus.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.11.014
Abstract: The prevailing paradigm for social wasp endocrinology is that of juvenile hormone (JH) functioning pleiotropically in potential and actual queens, where it fuels dominance behaviors, stimulates ovarian growth and/or affects the production of status-linked cuticular… read more here.
Keywords: status; hormone; paper wasp; juvenile hormone ... See more keywords