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Diversity and evolution of caste patterns
- Y. Roisin
- Biology
- 2000
Termite societies display a wide array of polymorphism patterns, rivalled only by the most complex ant societies. Caste differentiation in termites occurs when immatures of either sex deviate from… Expand
Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest
- Y. Basset, L. Čížek, +35 authors M. Leponce
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 14 December 2012
Assessing Creepy Crawlies Arthropods are the most diverse group of terrestrial animal species, yet estimates of the total number of arthropod species have varied widely, especially for tropical… Expand
The evolutionary history of termites as inferred from 66 mitochondrial genomes.
- T. Bourguignon, N. Lo, +7 authors T. Evans
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular biology and evolution
- 1 February 2015
Termites have colonized many habitats and are among the most abundant animals in tropical ecosystems, which they modify considerably through their actions. The timing of their rise in abundance and… Expand
Biology of Termites: A Modern Synthesis
- D. Bignell, Y. Roisin, N. Lo
- Biology
- 2011
Biology of Termites, a Modern Synthesis brings together the major advances in termite biology, phylogenetics, social evolution and biogeography made in the decade since Abe et al Termites: Evolution,… Expand
Social organisation and the status of workers in termites
Whereas the soldier caste is clearly ancestral to all extant termite lineages and constitutes the hallmark of termite eusociality, the origin and evolution of workers is much more difficult to… Expand
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the nasute termite genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the pacific tropics.
- T. Miura, Y. Roisin, T. Matsumoto
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
- 1 October 2000
The nasute termite genus Nasutitermes is widely distributed over all tropical regions. The phylogenetic relationships among 17 Nasutitermes species from the Pacific tropics were inferred from… Expand
Caste-dependent reactions to soldier defensive secretion and chiral alarm/recruitment pheromone inNasutitermes princeps
- Y. Roisin, Claude Everaerts, J. Pasteels, Odile Bonnard
- Biology, Medicine
- Journal of Chemical Ecology
- 1 October 1990
The soldier frontal gland secretion ofNasutitermes princeps induces strong short-range caste-specific alarm and attraction in both soldiers and workers. Soldiers are excited and patrol the… Expand
When Hymenopteran Males Reinvented Diploidy
- S. Aron, Ludivine de Menten, D. V. Bockstaele, S. Blank, Y. Roisin
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 10 May 2005
In most plants and animals, a consistent relationship exists between the DNA content of a cell and its metabolic activity. The male-haploid sex determination of Hymenoptera and other arthropods may… Expand
Oceanic dispersal, vicariance and human introduction shaped the modern distribution of the termites Reticulitermes, Heterotermes and Coptotermes
- T. Bourguignon, N. Lo, J. Šobotník, D. Sillam-Dussès, Y. Roisin, T. Evans
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 30 March 2016
Reticulitermes, Heterotermes and Coptotermes form a small termite clade with partly overlapping distributions. Although native species occur across all continents, the factors influencing their… Expand
Mitochondrial Phylogenomics Resolves the Global Spread of Higher Termites, Ecosystem Engineers of the Tropics
- T. Bourguignon, N. Lo, +9 authors T. Evans
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular biology and evolution
- 25 December 2016
The higher termites (Termitidae) are keystone species and ecosystem engineers. They have exceptional biomass and play important roles in decomposition of dead plant matter, in soil manipulation, and… Expand