Review of agonistic behaviors in the Isoptera

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-176

  Shelton, Thomas G ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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