Sexual and asexual colony foundation and the mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-332

  Matsuura, K ^a   Fujimoto, M ^b   Goka, K ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automixis; Facultative parthenogenesis; Heterozygosity; Terminal fusion; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

COLONY FOUNDING; PARTHENOGENESIS; SOCIAL INSECT; TERMITE;

INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 11244299385     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-004-0746-0     Document Type: Article

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