Relationship between invasion success and colony breeding structure in a subterranean termite

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2125-2142

  Perdereau, E ^a   Bagneres A G ^a   Vargo, E L ^b,d   Baudouin, G ^a   Xu, Y ^c   Labadie, P ^b   Dupont, S ^a   Dedeine, F ^a  

^a Parc Grandmont   (France)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding structure; invasion genetics; microsatellites; neoteny; Reticulitermes flavipes; sociality

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; CHILE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHILE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOPTERA; LOUISIANA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84928583735     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13094     Document Type: Article

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