A genomic comparison of two termites with different social complexity

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Korb, Judith ^a   Poulsen, Michael ^b   Hu, Haofu ^c   Li, Cai ^c,d   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^b   Zhang, Guojie ^b,c   Liebig, Jürgen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Genomes; Immunity; Social insects; Social organization; Symbiosis; Termites; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES NATALENSIS; MACROTERMITINAE; TERMITIDAE; ZOOTERMOPSIS NEVADENSIS;

EID: 84923206434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00009     Document Type: Article

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