Different boron compounds elicit similar responses in Coptotermes formosanus (isoptera: rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 633-641

  Gentz, Margaret C ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Boron compounds; Boron ingestion; Isoptera; Rhinotermitidae

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34447269444     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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