White-gutted soldiers: simplification of the digestive tube for a non-particulate diet in higher Old World termites (Isoptera: Termitidae)

Previous observations have noted that in some species of higher termites the soldier caste lacks pigmented particles in its gut and, instead, is fed worker saliva that imparts a whitish coloration to the abdomen. In order to investigate the occurrence of this trait more thoroughly, we surveyed a bro...

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Autores principales: Scheffrahn, R. H., Bourguignon, T., Bordereau, C., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Oelze, V. M., Dieguez, P., Šobotnik, J., Pascual-Garrido, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29081537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-017-0572-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29081537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-017-0572-9

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