Caste Differentiation and Reproductive Dynamics of Three Subterranean Termites in the Genus Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-251

  Pawson, B M ^b   Gold, R E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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