Termites, hemimetabolous diploid white ants?

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Korb, Judith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; FORMICIDAE; ISOPTERA;

EID: 53649083421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-5-15     Document Type: Review

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