Symbiotic hindgut flagellate communities of the subterranean termites Reticulitermes virginicus and Reticulitermes flavipes in Texas (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 533-543

  Cook, Tamara J ^a   Gold, Roger E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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