Termites assess wood size by using vibration signals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3732-3737

  Evans, Theodore A ^a   Lai, Joseph C S ^b   Toledano, Emilie ^b   McDowall, Lee ^b   Rakotonarivo, Sandrine ^b   Lenz, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Foraging; Social insects; Vibroacoustic

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FEEDING; FOOD PREFERENCE; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SIGNAL DETECTION; VIBRATION; WOOD;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; ISOPTERA; VIBRATION; WOOD;

CRYPTOTERMES DOMESTICUS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 14844351248     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408649102     Document Type: Article

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