Diverse colony genetic structures in the Japanese subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 175-184

  Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^a   Kitade, Osamu ^a   Gonda, Mariko ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Miyata, Hitoshi ^a   Urayama, Kotaro ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colony fusion; DSCP; Microsatellite; Mitochondrial DNA; PCR RFLP; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES (GENUS); RETICULITERMES (SUBGENUS); RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 22844437080     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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