Organization of the symbiotic flagellate community in three castes of the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-39

  Cook, Tamara J ^a   Gold, Roger E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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