Impact of low temperature conditioning on intercolonial agonism in Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-211

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

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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