Termites are a clade of eusocial wood-feeding roaches with> 3000 described species.
Eusociality emerged~ 150 million years ago in the ancestor of modern termites, which, since …

Soil invertebrates harbour a complex microbial community in their intestinal system. The
total number of microbes in the hindgut of soil invertebrates can reach a titre of 1011 ml− 1 …

SOME termites can live on a diet of cellulose filter paper1. This characteristic prompted
Hungate2 to question the possibility of N2 fixation in termites by estimating the N balance of …

Social insects are promising new models in aging research. Within single colonies, longevity
differences of several magnitudes exist that can be found elsewhere only between different …

Isoptera (termites) are an ecologically important order, with both a high abundance and
biomass in tropical ecosystems. However, there have been few phylogenetic hypotheses for …

Abstract Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) have evolved specialized defensive strategies for
colony protection. Alarm communication enables workers to escape threats while soldiers …

Reticulitermes, Heterotermes and Coptotermes form a small termite clade with partly
overlapping distributions. Although native species occur across all continents, the factors …

Under natural conditions wood is decomposed by the interaction of a neh community of
organisms. The roles of many organisms are ill defined but the most biochemically active are …

Termites consume an estimated 3–7 billion tonnes of lignocellulose annually, a role in
nature which is unique for a single order of invertebrates. Their food is digested with the help …

Trace fossils on sauropod skeletons from a quarry in fluvial deposits of the Morrison
Formation, Wyoming, are used to reconstruct the taphonomic history of the dinosaur bone …