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Workers of a drywood termite do not work
Frontiers in Zoology, 2007 Background Social insects (ants, bees, wasps and termites) are considered as prime examples of altruism in which individuals (workers) forego their own reproduction to help other individuals reproduce.
Korb Judith
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Use of Chemical and Colorimetric Changes to Age Cryptotermes brevis Frass for Termite Management [PDF]
InsectsDrywood termites are problematic timber pests worldwide. Cryptotermes brevis, the West Indian drywood termite, is among the most important of these pests, in part due to its cryptic nature, making it hard to detect in structures and thereby easy to ...
William Haigh +3 more
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Evolutionary relationship of fat body endoreduplication and queen fecundity in termites [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 9, Issue 20, Page 11684-11694, October 2019., 2019 Our study links a tissue‐specific ploidy elevation to reproductive division of labor in social insects; ploidy analysis via flow cytometry across six phylogenetically diverse termites revealed that the fat body of queens contained more polyploid cells than that of other nonreproductive females.
Tomonari Nozaki, Kenji Matsuura
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Cryptotermes colombianus a new drywood termite and distribution record of Cryptotermes in Colombia. [PDF]
Zookeys, 2016 Une nouvelle espèce de termite de bois sec (Kalotermitidae), Cryptotermes colombianus, est décrite et de nouveaux enregistrements pour Cryptotermes cylindroceps et Cryptotermes mangoldi sont présentés de la côte caribéenne de la Colombie. Cryptotermes colombianus est décrit à partir de deux soldats et de séquences génétiques.
Casalla R, Scheffrahn R, Korb J.
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Male’s influence on the primary sex ratio bias in Ryukyu drywood termite
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Selfish genetic elements (SGEs) increase their transmission efficiency relative to the rest of the individual genome, which is often deleterious to individual fitness.
Ayaka Agarie +5 more
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EFSA Journal, Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2020., 2020 Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier by USDA proposing a systems approach to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum to the EU when trading oak logs with bark from the USA. Due to the forthcoming ban of methyl bromide (MB), the Dossier indicates sulfuryl fluoride (SF) as the substitute ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +25 more
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Substantial direct fitness gains of workers in a highly eusocial ant
Molecular Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 19, Page 3720-3730, October 2020., 2020 Abstract Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness suggests that helpers in animal societies gain fitness indirectly by increasing the reproductive performance of a related beneficiary. Helpers in cooperatively breeding birds, mammals and primitively eusocial wasps may additionally obtain direct fitness through inheriting the nest or mating partner of the
Julia Giehr +5 more
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Body size and sperm quality in queen‐ And worker‐produced ant males
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 842-849, June 2020., 2020 Workers in many ant species are capable of activating their ovaries and producing males, at least in the absence of a queen. In this study we tested, whether queen‐ and worker‐produced males differ in sperm quality and other physiological traits. We show that male quality traits varied considerably among colonies but differed only slightly between ...
Julia Giehr +3 more
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Sociobiology, 2022 Reliable drywood termite detection in structures is challenging but is critical for effective management. A microwave-based non-destructive method was evaluated for detecting termite activity.
Janet McDonald +3 more
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EDIS, 1997 This document provides an overview of various wood-destroying insects, including Lyctid, Bostrichid, and Anobiid powderpost beetles, old house borers, Formosan termites, drywood termites, Eastern subterranean termites, carpenter ants, and carpenter bees.
P.G. Koehler, J.L. Castner
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