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Building mud castles: a perspective from brick-laying termites
Animal constructions such as termite mounds have received scrutiny by architects, structural engineers, soil scientists and behavioural ecologists but their basic building blocks remain uncharacterized and the criteria used for material selection unexplored. By conducting controlled experiments on O...
Autores principales: | Zachariah, Nikita, Das, Aritra, Murthy, Tejas G., Borges, Renee M. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5498601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04295-3 |
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