Sexual polyethism of founding reproductives in incipient colonies of the Japanese damp-wood termite Hodotermopsis japonica (Isoptera: Termopsidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3 A, 2001, Pages 501-512

  Machida, Mitsuyo ^a   Miura, Toru ^a   Kitade, Osamu ^b   Matsumoto, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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