A new model describing the weight to surface area relationship of termites (Isoptera)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-44

  Haagsma, Karl ^b   Nguyen, John ^b   Rust, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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