A new pattern of lignin degradation in the fungus comb of Macrotermes carbonarius (Isoptera, Termitidae Macrotermitinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 591-596

  Hyodo, Fujio ^a   Azuma, Jun Ichi ^a   Abe, Takuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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