Worker size in the formosan subterranean termite in relation to colony breeding structure as inferred from molecular markers

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 400-408

  Husseneder, Claudia ^a   Powell, Janine E ^b   Grace, J Kenneth ^c   Vargo, Edward L ^d   Matsuura, Kenji ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breeding system; Isoptera; Microsatellite genotyping; Morphometry; Rhinotermitidae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BODY MASS; COLONIAL BREEDING; COLONY STRUCTURE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SIZE; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY SIZE; ISOPTERA; REPRODUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 43649085580     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[400:WSITFS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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