How Can Termites Achieve Their Unparalleled Postembryonic Developmental Plasticity? A Test for the Role of Intermolt-Specific High Juvenile Hormone Titers

How Can Termites Achieve Their Unparalleled Postembryonic Developmental Plasticity? A Test for the Role of Intermolt-Specific High Juvenile Hormone Titers

Termites are “social cockroaches” and amongst the most phenotypically plastic insects. The different castes (i.e., two types of reproductives, workers, and soldiers) within termite societies are all encoded by a single genome and present the result of differential postembryonic development. Besides...

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Main Authors: Judith Korb, Carolin Greiner, Marion Foget, Adrian Geiler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
developmental plasticity
social insect
juvenile hormone
molt
methoprene
JH epoxidase
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.619594/full

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