Pheromones and chemical ecology of dispersal and foraging in termites

Biology of Termites: A Modern Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 279-320

  Bordereau, Christian ^a   Pasteels, Jacques M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3977-4_11     Document Type: Chapter

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