Cuticular hydrocarbons suggest three lineages in Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) from North America

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 305-324

  Page, Marion ^a   Nelson, Lori J ^a   Forschler, Brian T ^b   Haverty, Michael I ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxonomy; Phylogenetics; Subterranean termites; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANISM COLONY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES;

COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HETEROTERMES; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0036192026     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(01)00466-3     Document Type: Article

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