Colony breeding system influences cuticular bacterial load of Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) workers

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1715-1723

  Husseneder, Claudia ^a   Simms, Dawn M ^a   Aluko, Gabriel K ^a   Delatte, Jennifer ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

disease risk; immune defense; microorganism; pathogen; Social insect

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BREEDING POPULATION; DISEASE SPREAD; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INBREEDING; LIFE HISTORY; PATHOGEN; SOCIAL INSECT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; ISOPTERA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 79251515198     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09238     Document Type: Article

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