Soldier morphogenesis in a nasute termite: Discovery of a disc-like structure forming a soldier nasus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1449, 2000, Pages 1185-1189

  Miura, Toru ^a   Matsumoto, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Disc; Male individuals; Nasus; Soldier; Termite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INSECT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0034702172     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1127     Document Type: Article

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