Size, hatching rate, and hatching period of sexually and asexually produced eggs in the facultatively parthenogenetic termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-246

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Kobayashi, Norimasa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automixis; Colony foundation; Developmental disadvantage; Inbreeding depression; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34548304318     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2007.241     Document Type: Article

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