Not only soldiers have weapons: Evolution of the frontal gland in imagoes of the termite families rhinotermitidae and serritermitidae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Šobotník, Jan ^a   Bourguignon, Thomas ^b   Hanus, Robert ^a   Sillam Dussès, David ^a   Pflegerová, Jitka ^c   Weyda, František ^c   Kutalová, Kateřina ^a,d   Vytisková, Blahoslava ^e   Roisin, Yves ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GLAND; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IMAGO; ISOPTERA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; RHINOTERMITIDAE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERRITERMITIDAE; SOLDIER (INSECT); SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE GLAND; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

ISOPTERA; PSAMMOTERMES; RHINOTERMITIDAE; RHINOTERMITINAE; SERRITERMITIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HEAD; ISOPTERA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651227517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015761     Document Type: Article

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