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Termites in the woodwork [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2007 Termites eat and digest wood, but how do they do it? Combining advanced genomics and proteomics techniques, researchers have now shown that microbes found in the termites' hindguts possess just the right tools. Most animals, from insects to mammals, carry complex communities of microbes in their digestive tracts.
Chaffron, Samuel, Mering, C.
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Behavioural Processes, 2023 Abstract It is generally believed that termites can’t learn and are not “intelligent”. This study aimed to test whether termites could have any form of memory. A Y-shaped test device with one release chamber and two identical test chambers was designed and constructed by 3D printing.
Yifan Evan Ding, Zhenghui Li
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Sociobiology, 2016 Two substrates, sand and vermiculite, were tested in rearing laboratory experiments with Reticulitermes grassei at different culture periods (2, 4 and 6 weeks).
Patricia Gallardo +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2014 This paper presents preliminary data on the field activity of Reticulitermes grassei Clément in oak forests of the southern Iberian Peninsula. Recent research has provided information on the nature and intensity of termite damage to cork oaks (Quercus ...
Ana M Cardenas +3 more
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Sociobiology, 2018 Genetic differentiation, genetic exchange, and influence of natural geographic barrier on the genetic structure of 20 geo-populations of Odontotermes formosanus sampled from different regions in Anhui province, China were detected using ISSR.
Yun Qiu Yang +5 more
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Occurrence of termites (Isoptera) on living and standing dead trees in a tropical dry forest in Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Termites play a key role as ecosystem engineers in numerous ecological processes though their role in the dynamics of wood degradation in tropical dry forests, particularly at the level of the crown canopy, has been little studied.
Nancy Calderón-Cortés +2 more
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Indigenous technologies for the management of termites in Tamil Nadu
The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 Termites, one of the most polyphagous pests are destructive creatures of all cultivated crop plants throughout the world. An extensive survey was carried out in 10 districts of Tamil Nadu, India to document the Indigenous Technologies (ITKs) followed by ...
RANJITH M, MANOHARAN T, BAJYA D R
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Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 The genus Andromma Simon, 1893 is revised. The type species A. aethiopicum Simon, 1893 (♂♀) and the other three known species, A. anochetorum Simon, 1909 (♂), A. bouvieri Fage, 1936 (♀) and A. raffrayi Simon, 1899 (♂♀), are redescribed. The types of the
Rudy Jocqué, Jan Bosselaers
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Termite‐Termite Interactions: Workers as an Agonistic Caste [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1982 Termite soldiers are a defensive caste. Their heavily sclerotized head capsules can be equipped with hard mandibles capable of crushing, pinching, piercing, or slashing predators. Soldier castes of many phylogenetically advanced species have well-developed frontal glands and are capable of exuding or spraying chemical secretions.
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Potential for nitrogen fixation in fungus-growing termite symbioses
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Termites host a gut microbiota of diverse and essential symbionts that enable specialization on dead plant material; an abundant, but nutritionally imbalanced food source.
Panagiotis Sapountzis +5 more
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