Behavior and reproductive biology of the primary reproductives of the Formosan subterranean termite (isoptera: rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1 A, 2003, Pages 37-48

  Raina, Ashok ^b   Park, Yong Ihl ^b   Florane, Christopher ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0037288101     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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