Adaptation of a radiochemical assay for juvenile hormone biosynthesis to study caste differentiation in a primitive termite

Winged presoldiers induced by a juvenile

Winged presoldiers induced by a juvenile hormone analog in Zootermopsis nevadensis: Implications for plasticity and evolution of caste differentiation in termites

✍ Toru Miura; Shigeyuki Koshikawa; Tadao Matsumoto 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 668 KB

## Abstract To elucidate the switching mechanism of caste differentiation in termites and to examine the possible induction of soldier‐reproductive intercastes experimentally, we investigated the effects of juvenile hormone on the morphologies of soldier caste by applying a juvenile hormone analog