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Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood

Insect eusociality is characterized by cooperative brood care, reproductive division of labour and multiple generations of adults within a colony. The morphological specializations of the different termite castes from Burmese amber were recently reported, indicating the termites possessed advanced s...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Zhipeng, Yin, Xiangchu, Shih, Chungkun, Gao, Taiping, Ren, Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz141