Taxonomic Features and Comparison of the Gut Microbiome from Two Edible Fungus-Farming Termites (Macrotermes falciger, M. natalensis) Harvested in the Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa [PDF]
Background Termites are an important food resource for many human populations around the world, and are a good supply of nutrients. The fungus-farming ‘higher’ termite members of Macrotermitinae are also consumed by modern great apes and are implicated ...
Duncan, Frances D. +6 more
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Morphological phylogenetics of termites (Isoptera) [PDF]
Isoptera (termites) are an ecologically important order, with both a high abundance and biomass in tropical ecosystems. However, there have been few phylogenetic hypotheses for termites, and we present here the first comprehensive cladistic analysis for the group.
S.E. DONOVAN +3 more
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Biosystematics Of Hospitalitermes Hospitalis Holmgren (Isoptera) From Borneo [PDF]
This article redescribes Hospitalitermes hospitalis of open-air processional column termitesfrom Central Kalimantan, Borneo Indonesia. In many publications, this nasute termite is one of very incomplete descriptions.
Syaukani, S. (Syaukani)
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Multifunctional queen pheromone and maintenance of reproductive harmony in termite colonies. [PDF]
Pheromones are likely involved in all social activities of social insects including foraging, sexual behavior, defense, nestmate recognition, and caste regulation. Regulation of the number of fertile queens requires communication between reproductive and
Matsuura, Kenji
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Tropic niche of the Critically Endangered Black‐eyed Bent‐toed Gecko. ABSTRACT The Black‐eyed Bent‐toed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis, a species endemic to Ba Den Mountain Cultural and Historical Complex, Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, has been classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List since 2018.
Hanh Thi Ngo +10 more
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Different species may live in termite nests, cohabiting in close association with the host colony or occupying nest cavities without direct contact with the host.
Hélida Ferreira da Cunha +4 more
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Biting midges from Dominican amber : 3. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) [PDF]
The following 10 new species of biting midges are described and illustrated from Dominican amber: Culicoides (Oecacta) antilleanus, C. (0.) brodzinskyi, C. (0.) ambericus, C. (0.) hispanicolus, C. mammalicolus, Brachypogon (B.) american us, B. (Isohelea)
Grogan, William L. Jr. +1 more
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Looking back to look forward: lessons from four birth cohorts for ageing in the 21st Century [PDF]
A catalogue of the type specimens of Isoptera, Mantodea, Mecoptera, Orthoptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, and Zoraptera deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, is presented and ...
Augusto Loureiro Henriques +3 more
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Symbiosis and Phylogenesis in the Isoptera [PDF]
SOME years ago—in 1924—I discovered bacteriocytes in the fat tissue of an Australian termite, Mastotermes darwiniensis, and I fully realized the phylogenetic significance of this discovery. My interpretation was confirmed by the researches of Kock, a pupil of Buchner.
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Soil Macrofauna as Indicator of Environmental Recovery in a Mining Area
This work aimed to characterize the composition of the soil macrofauna in non-mined and mined areas recovered with native vegetation, Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden and Acacia mearnsii De Wild. plantations, in a coal mine.
Dayanna do Nascimento Machado +6 more
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