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Life history and development--a framework for understanding developmental plasticity in lower termites.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 Aug 2008

Korb Judith, Hartfelder Klaus

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Termites (Isoptera) are the phylogenetically oldest social insects, but in scientific research they have always stood in the shadow of the social Hymenoptera. Both groups of social insects evolved complex societies independently and hence, their different ancestry provided them with different life-history preadaptations for social evolution. Termites, the 'social cockroaches', have a hemimetabolous mode of...

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PMID: 18979593
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00044.x

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