Eusocial evolution in termites and hymenoptera

Biology of Termites: A Modern Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 97-132

  Howard, Kenneth J ^a   Thorne, Barbara L ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

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