Colony-level stabilization of soldier head width for head-plug defense in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 172-179

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant predation; Morphometry; Phragmosis; Soldier defense; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; MORPHOMETRY; NEST GUARDING; TERMITE;

COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0036460985     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-001-0426-2     Document Type: Article

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