Sex ratios and caste compositions in field colonies of the termite reticulitermes speratus in eastern Japan

Sociobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 379-386

  Kitade, Osamu ^a   Miyata, Hitoshi ^a   Hoshi, Masahiro ^a   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 77950575052     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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