Influence of environmental conditions on the expression of the sexual dispersal phenotype in a lower termite: Implications for the evolution of workers in termites

Evolution and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 342-352

  Korb, Judith ^a   Katrantzis, Stephania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL INSECT; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; ISOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOTERMES SECUNDUS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 4644336352     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04042.x     Document Type: Article

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