Workers of a drywood termite do not work

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Korb, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; CRYPTOTERMES SECUNDUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 33847627551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-4-7     Document Type: Article

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