Comparison of colony foundation success between sexual pairs and female asexual units in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Population Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-124

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Nishida, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alate flight; Facultative parthenogenesis; Mate searching; Subterranean termite

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COLONY FOUNDING; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; TERMITE;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0034817141     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012022     Document Type: Article

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